A composer and singer of songs, and -- "contrapuntally," as he would explain -- Anthony Craford's housemate, monitor, land-agent, and man of business. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
Daily, Google can move contrapuntally to the market, too. From Wordnik.com. [Roids On The Cabuie] Reference
It performs contrapuntally to the price of oil futures and gasoline at the pumps. From Wordnik.com. [Finding More To Like In General Motors Than Apple] Reference
My carefully-chosen expatriate existence, yearning contrapuntally as I sometimes do for the deep, cold coniferous forests of my youth. From Wordnik.com. [2003-10-12] Reference
The best playing came in the contrapuntally meaty Prelude, Chorale and Fugue by Franck, with more melodic interest to occupy that powerful left hand. From Wordnik.com. [Performing arts reviews] Reference
It's an exhilarating feeling for a reader, the feeling of jangling bits of past matter suddenly and contrapuntally building form and shape from each other. From Wordnik.com. [Natives and Exotics] Reference
The prospective impact of the rising dollar for commodity plays in oil, copper, fertilizers and iron ore is normally a bearish phenomenon as raw materials move contrapuntally to the dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Outperforming Asset Classes And Stocks For 2011] Reference
What he did was write beautiful melodies and mind-boggling contrapuntally-derived harmonies by twisting off-the-shelf material to surprising purposes and bringing the 300-year-old craft of counterpoint to a new perfection. From Wordnik.com. ["Life spans measured in years don’t take into account how fast we live them."] Reference
Gilchrist is one of our most polished composers contrapuntally, but has been here in a very lyric mood. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
It was not a subject to be worked out contrapuntally; it was not sufficiently striking harmonically to tempt. From Wordnik.com. [Haydn] Reference
Two less good points, contrapuntally, were the unwillingness to attribute blame, and the call for more project management skills. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
This film never consciously pauses in the former Sokurov style, yet the atmosphere in which the action occurs seems contrapuntally thoughtful. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Then the melody of Beckmesser's grotesque is brought in and treated contrapuntally, with what theorists call free imitation in the accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference
Then, in 2006, came harmonichaos, a chorus of thirteen sedate vacuum cleaners contrapuntally puffing harmonicas in a quotidian array of divinely comic chords. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is probably unlikely to contain forgotten masterpieces, but it promises to be at least as pleasing and ear-diverting as this melody-rich and contrapuntally leaning chamber music. From Wordnik.com. [Ionarts] Reference
To them he gave strained, fantastic names -- names meaningless and pretty -- and, as he was short-winded contrapuntally, he wrote his so-called instrumental poems shorter than Liszt's. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
The last movement is a complex two part form which begins quietly and contrapuntally and become a passacaglia somewhat like the last movement of the Fifth Symphony, but with more intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Sequenza21/] Reference
Coleman has a stellar cast of musicians on hand and the way they contrapuntally snake around each other and play the interconnecting lines that are expected in Coleman's arrangements is nothing short of genius. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
As Edmund Morris points out, Beethoven's climaxes are created contrapuntally: the wildest of all, in which violins, viola and cello squawk and scream like frenzied vultures, occur in a fugue - the Grosse Fuge of the String Quartet Op. 130. From Wordnik.com. [the well tempered blog] Reference
The choruses when contrapuntally developed, have themes somewhat too short, whereby the effect of the words is lost in the intermingling of voices coming in at later moments, but there are other parts of the work which are extremely beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
It was not a subject to be worked out contrapuntally; it was not sufficiently striking harmonically to tempt Haydn, as themes of an allied sort had constantly tempted Emanuel Bach, to make music and gain effects by repeating it at intervals above or below. From Wordnik.com. [Haydn]
Busoni is having none of that, and completes the work in his own fashion by changing the effort into an immense mélange of harmonic and contrapuntally related subjects, each pursued independently while woven into a chromatic tapestry of amazing complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
By presenting the viewpoints of two mountaineers contrapuntally, Macdonald double-hooks us emotionally as we follow the recollected trials of Simpson and his friend, Simon Yates, who faced a peak that bested every other climber until their (in) famous 1985 attempt. From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
His strongest points are a clever knack of treating the voices contrapuntally in concerted pieces, and a humorous trick of orchestration, two features with which English audiences have become pleasantly familiar in Sir Arthur Sullivan's operettas, which works indeed owe not a little to the influence of Lortzing and Kreutzer. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.