Crossword-Solution: CONTRAPUNTAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrapuntal | a. | Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CONTRAPUNTAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Polyphonic | 5 answers |
| Variant | 78 answers |
| Harmonious | 78 answers |
| Variation | 86 answers |
| Variance | 89 answers |
| Variety | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CONTRAPUNTAL (5)
Before many bars have been played, Siegfried and the wakened Brynhild, newly become tenor and soprano, will sing a concerted cadenza; plunge on from that to a magnificent love duet; and end with a precipitous allegro a capella, driven headlong to its end by the impetuous semiquaver triplets of the famous finales to the first act of Don Giovanni or the coda to the Leonore overture, with a specifically contrapuntal theme, points d'orgue, and a high C for the soprano all complete.
The more complex characters, instead of having a simple musical label attached to them, have their characteristic ideas and aspirations identified with special representative themes as they come into play in the drama; and the chief merit of the thematic structure of The Ring is the mastery with which the dramatic play of the ideas is reflected in the contrapuntal play of the themes.
The success of the stupendous experiment in contrapuntal writing was so great that the composer fell in a faint amidst the applause of the audience and died less than three months afterward.
The choice may seem curious when we remember that Haydn had at his hand all the music of Handel and Bach, and the masters of the old contrapuntal school.
For their art was essentially contrapuntal--the combination of several parts each of equal importance with the rest, each in a sense pursuing its own course.
Quotes with CONTRAPUNTAL (3)
I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with …
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).