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Contrapuntal

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint.

Having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together. Synonym: polyphonic.

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... spirit, and give voice to the solemnity of Fate. In the long roll and vast swell of his verse there is something of the ocean—a moving profundity of power. His sonorous music, with its absolute sureness of purpose, and its contrapuntal art, recalls the vision in ...

— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey

... clever way in which popular songs were given an ecclesiastical or Plain Song character, has here added to his luminous lecture the following precious original composition, reproduced in facsimile, in which through ingenious contrapuntal treatment he gives a mock sacred form to an old French ditty, "I Have Some Good Tobacco in ...

— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens

... shaped the musical materials in use to-day. So anxious were they to attain perfection of form they often lost sight of the spirit which alone can give vitality to musical utterances. The great Bach infused this into his fugues, the highest manifestation of the contrapuntal, ...

— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

Words linked to "Contrapuntal" : monophonic, music, polyphonic, counterpoint