contrapuntal base. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Music written entirely by the rules of counterpoint is called contrapuntal music; that written otherwise is known as free harmonic music. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
While these also contain interesting contrapuntal tensions. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference
At first contrapuntal music may not seem interesting to us. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
Kertész approaches tradition in a similar contrapuntal way. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 - Presentation Speech] Reference
He plays a track by Bobby McFerrin as an example of contrapuntal singing. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Soldiers Cope With Trauma] Reference
I have to do a pulsating bass thing that is also contrapuntal to my vocal line. From Wordnik.com. [he's gotta have his dip-tet, honey] Reference
The women of the earlier schools of contrapuntal work have already been mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
She called it “a gamble in its contrapuntal form and taboo in its subject matter.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rose Franken.] Reference
How wondrous were the anthems that made their words mere sweet and contrapuntal syllables. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
Often it seems that only the very rich (or very eccentric) dare to make such contrapuntal moves. From Wordnik.com. [TURNING TO 'GOD'S TIME'] Reference
More free in form was the motet, in which religious subjects were treated in contrapuntal fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Her style has ranged from contrapuntal dissonance to a more lyrical, occasionally humourous style. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Women and Jewish Music in America.] Reference
Together they create their own contrapuntal rhythm lines within the larger symphonic flow of the story. From Wordnik.com. [James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre] Reference
So cue contrapuntal UK grins, plus smug lectures on the competitive wonders of our own fantastic press?. From Wordnik.com. [Good news for the world's newspapers – except in Fleet Street] Reference
"I'm attracted to certain kinds of music: works that are dense, contrapuntal and orchestral," he explains. From Wordnik.com. [The Musical Adventurer Comes to Play] Reference
The parts were all melodic, and woven together with such great skill that they yet remain masterpieces of contrapuntal writing. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
During one concert they had to play against the contrapuntal percussion of a firefight just outside the hall — but play they did. From Wordnik.com. [Rebirth of a Nation] Reference
A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern - to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal. From Wordnik.com. [Siempre en Domingo] Reference
There is still another form of writing which is neither strictly harmonic, nor strictly contrapuntal, -- it is a combination of both. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
All these contrapuntal reversals against a sound track of non-stop exhortation and a restless shuttling from one photo-op to another. From Wordnik.com. [Obama vs. Obama] Reference
Her fingers running into the treble range, they danced in contrapuntal jiggery at the top register, not six inches from his right ear. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
During his lifetime Clementi was much praised by the English critics for his "science," by which they meant his contrapuntal technique. From Wordnik.com. [Finished Symphonies] Reference
As a general thing no two voices in contrapuntal writing move in the same way, each voice-part being contrasted with different note-values. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
It remained for 20th-century composers to turn their attention to polychrome sonorities and contrapuntal possibilities of the wind quintet. From Wordnik.com. [It's a Breeze: Imani Winds] Reference
And at the very end of the song, he introduces a little contrapuntal tag that alludes to the opening phrase of Jerome Kern's "The Song Is You.". From Wordnik.com. [A Classical Musician Enjoys Improvising With Jazz] Reference
The Cantus Firmus is a given melodic phrase that is to receive contrapuntal treatment, that is, one or more parts are to be added above or below it. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons] Reference
The song is quite brief, beginning with an aggressive chordal riff leading into a propulsive contrapuntal (over one chord) foundation for the verses. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference
In a contrapuntal work such as a fugue (or ricercar), the leading phrase226 that sets the pattern of movement for the other voices was called the Dux. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
A touch of magic, and he was playing all four parts of the contrapuntal melody in perfect harmony with himself-a neat trick, and one he'd worked hard on. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
The same principle of contrapuntal voices forms the basis for one of Vargas Llosa's most ambitious works, Conversación en la Catedral, published in 1971. From Wordnik.com. [Obsessed by Flaubert] Reference
Franco, in postu - lating invention first, then contrapuntal elaboration, doubtless follows Cicero's venerable division between invention, disposition, and elocution. From Wordnik.com. [MUSICAL GENIUS] Reference
Although we were seated at opposite ends of the table, it was fun to watch Julia watch our contrapuntal hosts in action and dig into their signature dishes with gusto. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Howard Cobb: My Julia Child] Reference
The sound of the clapping in the parkland evolved from raindrop randomness to marching cadence and back again, providing a peculiar ground to the intricate, contrapuntal melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
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