Contrapuntist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a composer who specializes in counterpoint wordnet
Example
More examples"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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