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contrapuntal

[ kon-truh-puhn-tl ]

adjective

, Music.
  1. of or relating to counterpoint.
  2. composed of two or more relatively independent melodies sounded together.


contrapuntal

/ ˌkɒntrəˈpʌntəl /

adjective

  1. music characterized by counterpoint
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcontraˈpuntally, adverb
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Other Words From

  • contra·puntal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of contrapuntal1

1835–45; < Italian contrappunt ( o ) + -al 1. See counterpoint
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Word History and Origins

Origin of contrapuntal1

C19: from Italian contrappunto counterpoint + al 1
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Example Sentences

The themes are not good of their sort, the sort being, as he said, the sort that are useful for contrapuntal working.

So he showed himself neither a great poet-composer nor a contrapuntal adept.

One is ever conscious in Reger that he is solving contrapuntal problems in order to astonish the vulgar herd of the professors.

For, like Bruckner's, they appear chosen with an eye to their serviceability for contrapuntal deformation and dissection.

More free in form was the motet, in which religious subjects were treated in contrapuntal fashion.

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