# Language of the Spirit Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Jan Swafford](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B01K3WN5J2 * ISBN: 0465097545 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K3WN5J2 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01K3WN5J2) ## Highlights polyphony is the name of a musical texture, and counterpoint is the technique of writing polyphony. In practice, many musicians tend to use polyphony to refer to such music written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and counterpoint for the baroque period and later. — location: [227](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01K3WN5J2&location=227) ^ref-34908 --- In these ways the WTC surveys the spectrum of human feeling, and the spectrum of what music can do in expressing it. It is one of the wellsprings of all Western music that followed it. — location: [559](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01K3WN5J2&location=559) ^ref-53865 ---