Counterpoint or Transcribing Music?

[jason_sioco]

I am in awe of musicians, composers, and artists, who can come up with many types of melodies in their arsenal. When I listen to music, I listen to the nuances, and I can say they are really clever, with not just the main melody, but the leads and fills, basslines, and everything else in between. I find that is very organic.

 I believe these musicians transcribed a lot of music and copied their favorite idols. That's why they have a lot of vocabulary, when it comes to melody. I am also assuming that they must have studied some counterpoint at some point, because their understanding of melody is second nature. The greatest composers studied counterpoint.

 When it comes to creativity to melody, which aspect of music did they use more Counterpoint or Transcription?

[blackonwhite]

It has to be counterpoint from the works of Bach all the way to as late as Scriabin the contrapuntal fabric of pieces make them so much more interesting than just some melody and a couple of harmonic progressions

[j_menz]

all the way to as late as Scriabin

 

You can go further than that, surely. After all Scriabin died in 1915.

[blackonwhite]

Fine all the way to barber