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contrapuntal

/kon-truh-puhn-tl/US // ˌkɒn trəˈpʌn tl //UK // (ˌkɒntrəˈpʌntəl) //

连贯性,连击性,连贯性的,连绵不断

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Music.

    • : of or relating to counterpoint.
    • : composed of two or more relatively independent melodies sounded together.

Examples

  • 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.