I have suggested earlier that his dutiful embodiment of the model minority and his vilification of African Americans should be read contrapuntally as the two-pronged prerequisite to his assimilation into the white mainstream--a condition that he sees as the sine qua non of the American Dream.

Said's unique experiences, his history and his engagement with music and text allowed this exile to dance on the margins of life, like no other, in double time, contrapuntally, surrendering to the song of life which he still sings to us with passionate and intellectual majesty.

The dynamics must be such that a different quantity of tone can be produced at different levels of playing so that the texture and quality of tone, although different for each finger, can be interrelated and can blend in the different motifs that are going on simultaneously The finger's touch, tonal quantity and quality must relate as the lines move horizontally and contrapuntally to each other as, for example, in a four-voiced fugue.