Crossword-Solution: COUNTERPOINT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Counterpoint | n. | An opposite point |
| Counterpoint | n. | The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody |
| Counterpoint | n. | The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies. |
| Counterpoint | n. | Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony. |
| Counterpoint | n. | A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COUNTERPOINT | anagram | POINTCOUNTER |
We have 8 clues for the answer “COUNTERPOINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feature of much of Bach's music | 1 answer |
| Leading money winner: 1951 | 1 answer |
| MELODY added as accompaniment to given melody/plainsong | 1 answer |
| A MUSICAL FORM INVOLVING THE SIMULTANEOUS SOUND OF TWO OR MORE MELODIES | 11 answers |
| Variant | 78 answers |
| Variation | 86 answers |
| Variance | 89 answers |
| Variety | 96 answers |
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Sentences with COUNTERPOINT (5)
These not only knit and knot the logical texture of the style with all the dexterity and strength of prose; they not only fill up the pattern of the verse with infinite variety and sober wit; but they give us, besides, a rare and special pleasure, by the art, comparable to that of counterpoint, with which they follow at the same time, and now contrast, and now combine, the double pattern of the texture and the verse.
But again we have vocations which are imperfect; we have men whose minds are bound up, not so much in any art, as in the general _ars artium_ and common base of all creative work; who will now dip into painting, and now study counterpoint, and anon will be inditing a sonnet: all these with equal interest, all often with genuine knowledge.
Recognising that the most perfect art is that which most fully mirrors man in all his infinite variety, they elaborated the criticism of language, considered in the light of the mere material of that art, to a point to which we, with our accentual system of reasonable or emotional emphasis, can barely if at all attain; studying, for instance, the metrical movements of a prose as scientifically as a modern musician studies harmony and counterpoint, and, I need hardly say, with much keener æsthetic instinct.
The teacher of writing, past master in the juggling craft of language, explains that he is only carrying into letters the principles of counterpoint, or that it is all a matter of colour and perspective, or that structure and ornament are the beginning and end of his intent.
Her "No" was set to counterpoint in the part-song, and she frightened Love out of her sight in a ballet.
Quotes with COUNTERPOINT (3)
The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear them out of context. If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities. The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, inco…
Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an essential, indispensable element for the transfer of information from one place to another by words, where matters of real importance are concerned. It is often necessary, for meaning to come through, that there be an almost vague sense of strangeness and askewness. Speechless animals and cells cannot do this. The specifically locked-on anti…
And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1986–2010).