Counterpoint

//ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt//

"Counterpoint" in a Sentence (10 examples)

This music makes heavy use of counterpoint.

This piece makes heavy use of counterpoint.

This composition makes heavy use of counterpoint.

This piece is a virtuosic display of the composer's mastery of counterpoint and orchestration.

Whatever I bring, be it sonatina, invention, or merely a counterpoint exercise, he daringly plays it out forte.

In this world, nothing is more beautiful than hearing a sad rooster in the backlands when there is moonlight. It even seems that hidden in the throat of that rooster, the soul of the moon sings in counterpoint, sobbing.

I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.

As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Chistie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic looks such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.

[…] Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.

[…] the dominant discourse on theory and method in the study of religions remains stuck on the debate about reductionism, which is in turn bent on representing the debate about theory and method in the study of religions as a choice between an unscientific phenomenology or an unsympathetic positivism (for phenomenology the idea that explanation is always 'bad' is perfectly counterpointed by the idea that religion is always 'good').

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