"counter-melody" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, John Whenham, Julian Rushton, Monteverdi: Vespers (1610), page 76:",
          "text": "The accompanying texture, too, is rather more than a simple filling in of the harmony. In the first phrase, for example, the beginning of the counter-melody in the Sextus part is shadowed in shorter note values in the tenor of Choir 1 and the alto of Choir 2, while the rising scale of the plainsong (bars 2-3 (Bt 3-5)) is shadowed by the bass of Choir 2.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jerry Nowak, Henry Nowak, The Art of Expressive Playing, page 76:",
          "text": "This section has compositional elements including melody, counter-melody, sustained harmony, rhythmic harmonic accompaniment, bass line and rhythmic accompaniment, but they are all marked mf.",
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          "ref": "2011, Steven Suskin, The Sound of Broadway Music:",
          "text": "The first violin played the tune throughout, the second violin and the viola played after-beats (the pahs), the cello had some kind of sustained counter-melody or doubled the bass, who played the ooms.",
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          "text": "The accompanying texture, too, is rather more than a simple filling in of the harmony. In the first phrase, for example, the beginning of the counter-melody in the Sextus part is shadowed in shorter note values in the tenor of Choir 1 and the alto of Choir 2, while the rising scale of the plainsong (bars 2-3 (Bt 3-5)) is shadowed by the bass of Choir 2.",
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          "text": "This section has compositional elements including melody, counter-melody, sustained harmony, rhythmic harmonic accompaniment, bass line and rhythmic accompaniment, but they are all marked mf.",
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