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Definition of Contrapuntists
1. contrapuntist [n] - See also: contrapuntist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrapuntists
Literary usage of Contrapuntists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Violin and Its Music by George Hart (1881)
"The genius of the early contrapuntists was wholly spent upon Vocal Music, and it
was not until considerable strides had been taken towards perfecting this ..."
2. The Singing of the Future by David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"Palestrina and contrapuntists.—Modern opera enthusiast and contrapuntal
oratorio.—Fugue, roulade, etc. ..."
3. Music in England and Music in America by Frédéric Louis Ritter (1884)
"THE EARLY ENGLISH contrapuntists. LET us now study more closely the artistic
labors of the English professional composers. England took an early part in the ..."
4. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"The contrapuntists of the next period employed the syncope also harmonically and
could do this logically, because what is rhythmically the strong or ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1855)
"But it could not have proceeded otherwise. If the contrapuntists of the fifteenth
and the melodists of the first half of the eighteenth ..."
6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"The old contrapuntists recognized onb one sort of musical necessity. This was
tha whenever two voices sang simultaneously two notes which lay side by side ..."
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