contrapuntaladjective
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈpʌn.təl/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈpʌn.t̬əl/specializedContrapuntal music has two or more separate tunes that are played or sung at the same time.
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Technical music terms
- accidental
- adagio
- allegro
- antiphonal
- arpeggio
- arr
- arrange
- cadence
- harmony
- key signature
- legato
- mike check
- motif
- pizzicato
- timbre
- tuning
- twelve-tone
- twelve-tone scale
- unison
- up-tempo
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Examples from literature
- After the exposition the fugue consists of a kind of free contrapuntal fantasy on the subject and its answer.
- From the first he used counterpoint, canon, imitation, and all the devices of the contrapuntal style.
- Sight-singing in three parts should always begin with exercises written in the contrapuntal style.
- So great was the scandal throughout the whole world of church music that contrapuntal music came near being abandoned entirely.
- The great Bach infused this into his fugues, the highest manifestation of the contrapuntal, or polyphonic music of old.