Relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (exhibiting polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
To show differences when compared; be different.
Синонимы
Examples for "contrapuntal "
Examples for "contrapuntal "
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.
1 Yet at time its leaner-sounding production provides a counterpoint to its explicitness.
2 This is ordinary enough; it might be a bit of eighteenth-century counterpoint :
3 In the words of McAlpine, Scotland could become a powerful centre-left counterpoint .
4 A welcome counterpoint to the inertia that's seized the country of late.
5 It was a counterpoint to Too Sweet's cynical view of human motherhood.
6 Garity is cast as a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom.
7 That said, Bateman's fresh-faced sweetness is a charming counterpoint to the boldness.
8 Wimbledon forever succeeds in providing the counterpoint and highlighting the attrition rate.
9 Idas played a counterpoint of sounds and images on the Mouse's syrynx.
10 Fresh garlic mayonnaise made with chopped green olives adds a rich counterpoint .
11 It was an interesting counterpoint to his flying expertise, and suggested humility.
12 Marjorie's rushed sentences wove between theirs in a kind of birdlike counterpoint .
13 Exquisite counterpoint came from Alban's warmth where her hips pressed into his.
14 He picked up the tempo and played a counterpoint to Nyssa's tune.
15 To you, your counterpoint , your fugue, the infallible, unquestionable sequence of one-two-three.
16 I think it gives you a nice counterpoint for wherever you're standing.
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Translations for counterpoint
Counterpoint в диалектах
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