contexture, n Etymology: < French contexture (Montaigne, 1572–80), = Italian contestura (Florio), probably representing a medieval Latin *contextūra , < context– participial stem of contexĕre : compare Latin textūra texture n. Very common in 17th cent.; now rare. 1.  a. The action or process of weaving together or intertwining; the fact of being woven together; the manner in which this is done, texture.  [….] 2.  a. transferred. The linking together of materials or elements, so as to form a connected structure (natural or artificial); the manner in which the parts of a thing are thus united.  […] 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §14 Without this there cannot be imagined any concourse of Atoms at all, much less any such contexture of bodyes out of them.  [….] b. figurative of things non-material. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros’d i. 29 The Roman Church, having by a regular Contexture of continued Policy..interwoven itself with the Secular Interest. [….] 3. The structure, composition, or texture of anything made up by the combination of elements. Now chiefly figurative from 1.  [….] 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vii. 59 Women are of a nice Contexture, and our Spirits when disordered are not to be recomposed in a Moment.  [….] 4.  That which is put together or constructed by the intertwining of parts. a. quasi-concrete. A mass of things interwoven together.  [….] 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 491 The Corpus Callosum is nothing but a Contexture of small Fibres.  [….] b. An interwoven structure, a fabric.  [….] 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 17 How many thousand parts of Matter must go to make up this heterogeneous Contexture? [….] 5.  a. The weaving together of words, sentences, etc. in connected composition; the construction or composition of a writing as consisting of connected and coherent members.  […] b. The connected structure or ‘body’ of a literary composition; a connected passage or composition. c. = context n. 4.  [OED second edition (1989)] The first four definitions relate to weaving in material and immaterial forms.  Only the fifth definition relates to writing or literary composition … but that’s where the confusion comes in.  A common interpretation associates context with text (as in language), rather than with texture (as with weaving).

Texture is regarded asthe joining of musical voices into melodic and accompaniment factors. In his book, Alfred’s essentialsof jazz theory,Berg (2005:3) writes: “... it is texturethat provides an aural dimension of depth”. The use of voicings6(Levine 1989:42) and texture in the three late piano worksare examined in this chapter.

Glossary of some important musical terms

the use of a choir of instruments, in this case two saxophones, as the main means of exposing the melody, and the playing off of different instruments against one another in a rudimentary contrapuntal manner

TEXTURE AS A FORM DETERMINANT

Texture

Chapter 12 introduces seven models of realizing harmonic progressions on the keyboard

TEXTURE

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ARRANGING TECHNIQUES: A STUDY IN TIME, ORCHESTRATION, AND STYLE

Keyboard Textures

Texture

Texture can be described as fine, coarse, grained, smooth, etc

Texture is characterized by the spatial distribution of intensity levels in a neighborhood

While in the short term Texture will focus on publishers' use cases, we are exploring future use cases for Texture as an authoring interface. For example, peer review could be realized entirely in Texture,