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Definition of Contrapuntally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrapuntally
Literary usage of Contrapuntally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... brought together but contrapuntally worked. Instances of this have been
mentioned at Birmingham and elsewhere. His tact in these things was prodigious. ..."
2. The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the by Percy Goetschius (1915)
"Theme is adjusted contrapuntally to it (or derived contrapuntally from it).
Both are wholly absent, however, from the Subord. Theme, which presents a very ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... fluent and as well planned as a written work,' and the themes, whether borrowed
or invented, were not merely brought together but contrapuntally worked. ..."
4. The Evolution of Modern Orchestration by Louis Adolphe Coerne (1908)
"In order to grasp the true significance of the contrapuntally synthesized harmonic
Melos it is of utmost importance to trace the complicated melodic ..."
5. The Art of Counterpoint and Its Application as a Decorative Principle by Charles Herbert Kitson (1907)
"In such cases the contrapuntally unessential combinations on the weak parts of
the bar do not produce the mental impression of a new harmony. All good. ..."
6. Program of the Ann Arbor May Festival by University of Michigan University Musical Society, University of Michigan School of Music (1899)
"The prelude opens strongly and broadly with the first theme of the Master Singer's
March, treated contrapuntally — in evident allusion to the old school of ..."
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