contrapuntal

[ kon-truh-puhn-tl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Music.

contrapuntal

/ ˌkɒntrəˈpʌntəl /

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

C19: from Italian contrappunto counterpoint + al ¹

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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