(1) The architecture of contrapuntal music was gloriously celebrated by Palestrina in Rome, Lassus in Munich, and Byrd in London.(2) One finds this mirrored in the antiphonies between orchestral groups in a huge, highly contrapuntal gigue.(3) This symphony is, if anything, contrapuntal , and the first movement a stunning exemplar.(4) This is a tall order indeed, yet performers wishing to play contrapuntal music well have to master this juggling act.(5) The motets, however, represent the zenith of Brahms's contrapuntal art.(6) One would expect this in something like the early Passacaglia, a contrapuntal Baroque form in which a set of variations occurs over a repeating bass.(7) In contrapuntal music the phrases of the various melodic voices overlap except at the most important cadences.(8) Generally, they are more lyrical and less contrapuntal than their German counterparts.(9) The final movement has some pounding drums with trumpets and some more contrapuntal blending of melodic lines.(10) The dominance of contrapuntal music or the u2018first practiceu2019 was, however, already threatened by developments occurring elsewhere on the peninsula.(11) He had trouble with highly contrapuntal music.(12) As with everything Thomson wrote, the Stabat Mater is contrapuntally spare and open.(13) And as a first-rate contrapuntist , she felt entirely at home in the medium of the quartet.(14) Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist , often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.(15) For example, Bach was influenced by the tremendous creativity displayed by the contrapuntists who preceded him.(16) These are traditionally more elaborate contrapuntally and are often accompanied by organ.
