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Counterpoint   /kˈaʊntərpˌɔɪnt/  /kˈaʊnərpˌɔɪnt/   Listen
Counterpoint

verb
1.
To show differences when compared; be different.  Synonym: contrast.
2.
Write in counterpoint.






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"Counterpoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... which expresses with greater clearness, beauty, or force the passages of Scripture it is intended to illumine than that which is to be found in the choral parts of Handel's oratorios. Handel was the greatest master of counterpoint the world has ever seen, and this power enabled him to give musical expression to written words with an ease and fluency which can only be described as marvellous. Yet it is not its marvellous character which strikes us when we hear his work for the first ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... with enthusiasm, while its deeper thoughts and feelings are not of the kind which translate themselves readily into artistic form. But, after all, a fine piece of colouring, a well-balanced composition, a sonorous stanza, a learned essay in counterpoint, are not enough. They are all excellent good things, yielding delight to the artistic sense and instruction to the student. Yet when we think of the really great statues, pictures, poems, music of the world, we find that these are really ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... accounting," he said to himself. "It'll be easily a month before I hear from old Howe in America, and longer before I hear from Henslowe, and already I've spent twenty francs on food. Can't make it this way. Then, in real possessions, I have one volume of Villon, a green book on counterpoint, a map of France torn in two, and a moderately ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos



Words linked to "Counterpoint" :   polyphony, counterbalance, contrapuntist, polyphonic music, inversion, write, conflict, contrast, foil, music, oppose, compose, concerted music, differ



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