contrapuntal

• These variations are well noted for their contrapuntal mastery and metaphysical sounds, and they reflect Brahms 'earlier encounters with J.S. Bach's —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• With these two smuggled themes everything contrapuntal (a fugue included) and instrumental is done that technical bravado could suggest or true art license. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• These 'fancies' were always contrapuntal, and the various artificial contrivances, answering of points, imitations, and what not, are referred to under this title. —  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
• The word contrapuntal is often used synonymously with polyphonic Sections 139 to 143 relate especially to terms describing polyphonic music 139. —  Music Notation and Terminology
• Here it means the cantus firmus_, the melody around which the old composers wove their contrapuntal ornamentation Luther was the creator of German congregational singing 21] Luther's first poetic publication seems to have been certain verses composed on the martyrdom of two young Christian monks, who were burned alive at Brussels in 1523 for their faithful confession of the evangelical doctrines. —  Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties

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