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cantus firmus| In music, any familiar melody employed in counterpoint as a reference for the invention of an accompanying melody. |
| In early music, multiple parts were composed one at a time, each referring to the cantus firmus, but not to any other, with sometimes strange harmonic results, for example the final cadence E minor–G major–F major. |
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