They often have a contrapuntal texture and each phrase is usually four bars long.
Since each of the speech sections employs only one brief sample, its melodic contour must generate the entire contrapuntal texture.
It is also unusually easy to recognize within a contrapuntal texture.
Presumably, these pieces were composed for domestic use, yet they explore a variety of keys, contrapuntal textures and harmonic devices.
The first half (repeated) is a contrapuntal texture varying between two and four voices.
The trio section is in C major and is written in a contrapuntal texture.
Group Two (Chorus) whose parts are mainly homophonic though a few bars have a more contrapuntal texture.
This is especially pronounced in the last movement, whose contrapuntal textures lend it a decidedly baroque character (Orbón 1987c, 73).
There is density in the contrapuntal textures and daring fragmentation of phrase structure.
Some of the contrapuntal textures rubbed a little crudely against the ear, but then maybe they were intended to.