Contrapuntist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One skilled in counterpoint.

    "Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence"

  2. 2
    a composer who specializes in counterpoint wordnet

Example

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"Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence"

Etymology

From Italian contrappuntista.

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