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Counterpoint   /kˈaʊntərpˌɔɪnt/  /kˈaʊnərpˌɔɪnt/   Listen
Counterpoint

noun
1.
A musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies.





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"Counterpoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... a healthy Briton on the central table-land of life. Catherine, aware of a tacit understanding that he was an undeniable husband for an heiress, had nothing to say against him but that he was thoroughly tiresome to her. Mr. Bult was amiably confident, and had no idea that his insensibility to counterpoint could ever be reckoned against him. Klesmer he hardly regarded in the light of a serious human being who ought to have a vote; and he did not mind Miss Arrowpoint's addiction to music any more than her probable expenses in antique lace. He was consequently a little amazed ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot


Words linked to "Counterpoint" :   conflict, music, polyphony, contrapuntist, differ, foil, compose, contrast, counterbalance, concerted music, write, inversion, oppose, polyphonic music


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