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Contrapuntal

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint.

Having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together. Synonym: polyphonic.

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... laughter and the sound of lutes and voices; it is seductive with the clink of goblets and the odour of perfumes: not a shadow but has its secret, or jovial or amorous or terrible: here falls a head, and there you may note the contrapuntal effect of the bastinado. But the blood is quickly hidden with flowers, the bruises are tired over with cloth-of-gold, and the jolly pageant sweeps on. Truly the comic essence is imperishable. What was fun to them in Baghdad is fun to us in ...

— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... clear and forceful, and filled with many surprising and humorous touches. Of Bach he said, 'Bach spoke in close, scientific, contrapuntal language. He was as emotional and romantic as Chopin, Wagner or Tchaikovsky; his emotion was expressed in the language of his time. Young women who say they adore Bach play him like a sum in mathematics. They find a grim pleasure in it, like ...

— Edward MacDowell • Lawrence Gilman

Words linked to "Contrapuntal" : music, monophonic, counterpoint