Having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together.
1 The complication of the works of the contrapuntal school almost passes belief.
2 Though there is no want of contrapuntal design, the workmanship never obtrudes.
3 Yet his aim, always, is to make Bruckner's contrapuntal lines audible.
4 The women of the earlier schools of contrapuntal work have already been mentioned.
5 Both vocal and instrumental music have been written in contrapuntal style.
6 Of Bach he said, 'Bach spoke in close, scientific, contrapuntal language.
7 How wondrous were the anthems that made their words mere sweet and contrapuntal syllables.
8 Humperdinck's splendid contrapuntal skill shows itself in a most varied use of this theme.
9 The disc features three sinfonias, one of which concentrates on Richter's legendary contrapuntal skills.
10 At first contrapuntal music may not seem interesting to us.
11 That contrapuntal music can only be sung by those who can sing at sight.
12 It's a lovely piece, full of 19th century romanticism, contrapuntal in a Mahlerian manner.
13 Song is ever supreme, and with all abundance of contrapuntal art does not become sophisticated.
14 From the first he used counterpoint, canon, imitation, and all the devices of the contrapuntal style.
15 The relentlessly contrapuntal 1953 Violin Concerto, beautifully played here by Russian violinist Kirill Troussov, is finer.
16 Ironically, it contains nothing overtly contrapuntal at all.
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