POINTS. A term applied, in modern Music, to the opening notes of the Subject of a Fugue, or other important Motivo, to which it is necessary that the attention of the Performer should be particularly directed by the Conductor.
For instance, one of the most striking Subjects in the ‘Hallelujah Chorus,
’ is that adapted to the words ‘For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
’ After this has been twice enuntiated by the whole body of Voices, in unison, the ‘...