| 单词 | contrapuntal |
| 例句 | When there is more than one independent melodic line happening at the same time in a piece of music, we say that the music is contrapuntal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The weeping had an accidentally contrapuntal harmony, a symphony of grief in the blood-stained kitchen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This tends to change the rules for using and developing melodies, so the terms used to talk about contrapuntal melodies are different, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Polyphonic music can also be called polyphony, counterpoint, or contrapuntal music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Most music for large instrumental groups such as bands or orchestras is contrapuntal at least some of the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One great shift in consort music made by Corelli and his imitators from the 1680s onwards was to strip back its traditionally contrapuntal texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bruckner himself called his fifth "my contrapuntal masterpiece," and its counterpoint plays at times like sacred mathematics, an intricate fugue with ethereal melodies. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z She then breaks loose from the trio altogether and blasts into a solo, two-part contrapuntal Bach-like invention, which develops momentarily into three parts. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In some ways Beethoven looks back to the early heritage of intricately contrapuntal choral music. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z “Sam and I had a wonderful contrapuntal relationship: I would fight with him as if I were fighting with a wife,” Mr. Reiner said in an interview on Monday. Sam Denoff, TV Writer, Is Dead at 83 2011-07-12T02:02:50Z The first movement begins with an Adagio introduction, flickering with piercing chords and sustained sonorities; this leads to a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “You’re a piece of luminous fruit / yet to be bruised,” as he writes, and that prospect of bruising serves as the book’s contrapuntal theme. For an Ohio Poet, Love Is What Gets Us Through 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z There, Barbie is astonished to discover sexism, and Ken is delighted to discover patriarchy, contrapuntal revelations that generate further comedy and something like enlightenment. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Part of the allure comes from his finely wrought writing for chamber orchestra, in which solo instruments often combine to form lean contrapuntal textures. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z According to the musicologist Stanley Sadie, “counterpoint, in Handel, is almost invariably virtuous”; thus the Christian choruses feature strikingly contrapuntal music and the Roman heathens are given simpler fare. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z If you were facing the open piano lid for the first few variations, the contrapuntal lines could be heard relatively clearly. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z His transcription of Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” was a marvel of contrapuntal clarity and varied textures; one strand sounded like a brass band in the distance. Cameron Carpenter unleashes his International Touring Organ at CAP UCLA 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z As they illuminate long-overlooked corners of bibliography, volumes like Anthony Grafton’s “The Footnote” and H. J. Jackson’s “Marginalia” have charted the contrapuntal dance among writer, publisher, reader and material object. Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The first movement begins with bursts of brass, then quickly gets busy: declamatory themes are sounded, developed and put through contrapuntal workouts. Music Review | Riccardo Muti: Seldom-Heard Symphony Resurfaces as a Novelty 2010-03-05T21:23:00Z But the larger musical experience was a meditative drone a Minimalist would respect: sustained but subtly varying, punctuated by crescendos of activity and by contrapuntal outbreaks of honking. The Art of Summer: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock 2011-08-09T23:37:12Z And the musical numbers feel so repetitive, it's hard to distinguish one heartfelt ballad or up-tempo ditty or contrapuntal duet from another. Review: Village Theatre adopts 'Anne of Green Gables' 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z During more intense episodes, the instruments align into softly pungent chords or a bit of contrapuntal interplay. Review: A Whispered Opera Requests Your Close-Up Attention 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s no contrapuntal play of egos and ids; the flashlight beam of his imaginative sympathy has not yet extended itself very far outward. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z As I listen, I lose sense of time in the wild contrapuntal interplay between breathy tones, yelps, sighs, whispers, chants. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The next two hours follow the entwined, contrapuntal progress of their relationship and their careers, punctuated by more songs and ending in a swirl of piercing and complex emotion. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z With fixed intensity and supple quicksilver emotional changes, Deadwyler rises to the occasion as Mamie, delivering a quiet, centralizing performance that works contrapuntally with the story’s heaviness, its profundity and violence. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Its most striking feature is a contrapuntal poem, recited by Mr. Pride and three other vocalists, intended to evoke a kind of deadpan Dadaist horror. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z For most people, the term fugue evokes a very sober, complex form of contrapuntal instrumental music. Theater Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ Is Performed as a Benefit for Carnegie Hall 2014-04-04T22:08:20Z The doubling of Mozart’s beloved viola opened a visit of greater contrapuntal possibilities. Musicians at Marlboro provide lovely reading of Mozart 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But there is not much payoff for trying to unscramble the pile-on of bustling contrapuntal lines that Mahler writes, which came across here as textural and impetuous. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z He began with Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, its harmonies resplendent and the contrapuntal lines voiced with clarity. Thomas Trotter 2010-05-09T21:45:00Z But the slight coolness and clarity of the playing also revealed Mahler’s intricate contrapuntal writing, the boldness of his chromatic harmonies. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It builds its long, changeable songs on busy Minimalistic patterns: loops and drones, overlapping guitar and keyboard lines, contrapuntal vocals that can turn into ethereal chorales. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z “With fixed intensity and supple quicksilver emotional changes,” she wrote, “Deadwyler rises to the occasion as Mamie, delivering a quiet, centralizing performance that works contrapuntally with the story’s heaviness, its profundity and violence.” Danielle Deadwyler Is the Beating Heart of ‘Till’ 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Porterfield’s sense of composition and movement, of light and color, of the contrapuntal precision of terse dialogue, has an exalted yet serene precision. What to Stream: Five Directors’ Outstanding First Features 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Brahms’s Bach study, as he called the transcription, was evidently meant to retain the same sense of challenge, even strain, as Bach’s contrapuntal tour de force for violin. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z His playing drew on country, jazz, blues, surf-rock and raga; his compositions almost always set up a contrapuntal dialogue of guitars with distinct tones, colluding or contending. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z And Mr. Mitchell has also absorbed some of the digressive and contrapuntal strategies associated with Mr. Berne, who was in the audience. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z He wrote this lean, contrapuntal work in 1930, shortly after he had rejoined the Russian Orthodox Church to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z But the unheard music of Stone’s lower intestinal tract is nonetheless a key structural element, organizing “Flux Gourmet” into an elegant fugue of contrapuntal themes: grossness and refinement; pleasure and disgust; appetite and discipline. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z These pieces are among the best in the composer’s chamber music output, contrapuntally intricate and with daring chromatic touches. Sampling of C.P.E. Bach’s music at Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival Byrd’s fantasia “Two Parts in One” and complex setting of the “In Nomine” tune showcased that composer’s contrapuntal rigor, harmonic invention and melodic fancy. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This fervent advocacy, of course, highlights the difficulty of the work; a compendium of the most abstruse, labyrinthine contrapuntal techniques ever conceived. Pianist Angela Hewitt performs Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ at Shriver Hall in Baltimore But the second movement is all lyricism and involved contrapuntal interplay. Music Review: Sequitur at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-09-20T20:10:02Z Sitkovetsky's arrangement demands impeccable ensemble, intonation and articulation; these were all delivered in an astonishing performance that preserved the delicate contrapuntal intricacy of Bach's original. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z The title refers not to the number of sections, but to its contrapuntal voices; with a running time of about 20 minutes, “Music in Eight Parts” achieves its drama through rhythmic shifts and intricacy. A Philip Glass Score Was Lost. 50 Years Later, Here It Is. 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Many artists of the period, including Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, were fascinated with Bach, whose contrapuntal forms and clean lines inspired them. Music Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2011-10-23T21:57:46Z “Stride,” unfolding in a series of fitful episodes — thickets of glassy strings, declamatory brass and contrapuntal juxtapositions that evoke Charles Ives — is both solemn and celebratory. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In the more contrapuntally intricate choruses, however, the singing was sometimes indistinct and awkward, including, unfortunately, the arresting opening one. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z It is arranged in largely contrapuntal exchanges between extremes: spare and labor-intensive; little or no color and lots of it; improvisation and deliberation; and riffs on Minimalism and reconsiderations of Expressionism, both abstract and figurative. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z All three musicians intertwined their contrapuntal lines of melody beautifully in the sighing melancholy of the slow movement, although Gerlach’s intonation was not as accurate. Review | From the Trio Solisti, an understated, yet moving concert of Romantic piano trios 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z In the instrumental music that sets the scene, the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” pokes through, though it is fragmented, given contrapuntal twists and harmonized with “wrong note” chords. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The second movement begins with wistful, gentle music, but the mood does not stay that way for long, as yet again the violin sparks agitated contrapuntal clashes with the orchestra. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z Even during passages of intricate contrapuntal writing, the textures are lucid, the orchestration transparent. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Caan’s ability to convey delicacies of feeling wasn’t a singular gift, but, in his finest roles, it worked contrapuntally with his swaggering physicality and the implied roughness telegraphed by his Bronx-and-Queens-cultivated accent. Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The Price daughters and their mother narrate in contrapuntal alternation. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z The main attraction is the duets’ deftly contrapuntal interplay and on occasion their dry humor. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z From the hushed oscillation of the strings at the opening to the interwoven contrapuntal lines, this was an elegant, impassioned tour de force. Review | Can three musical stars shine in constellation? Bell, Isserlis and Denk in concert. 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z In a contrapuntal conversation, Jo tries to shake him out of his relentless optimism, but Casey’s like a human bubble machine, and he keeps volleying back hopeful responses. Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ From Elvis Impersonator to Drag Queen 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Adams describes the work as being built from contrapuntal “objects,” each one with a musical element circling a central pitch. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z It was in the densely contrapuntal Byrd that the choir shone its brightest, but its singing in the Howells and Muhly was finely polished, and often moving as well. Music Review: Trinity Choir in Nico Muhly Works at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-07-02T20:54:29Z But the overly broad performances, especially in the zippy courtroom scenes, drain the movie of nuance and blunt its realism, and the contrapuntal his-and-her flashbacks add little. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Hollywood angle brings lightness and levity into the movie, serving as comic relief that Mr. Affleck uses contrapuntally with the increasingly tense, perilous situation in Tehran. Movie Review: ‘Argo,’ Directed by Ben Affleck 2012-10-11T17:05:05Z Still, Mr. Gilbert and his players certainly dispatched the intertwined lines of this densely contrapuntal music with precision and point. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z You hear hints of Bach in the chorale-like brassy bursts and intricate contrapuntal passages of the first movement. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The dramatic first movement begins with contrapuntal busyness that evokes Bach’s minor-key concertos. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z A shimmering opening Adagio segues into a bustling, contrapuntally complex Allegro, followed by a wistful Adagio, a misbehaving Scherzo and a hurtling, imposing finale. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z A section called “Christmas Music From Medieval Hungary” included chant and an arresting four-voice motet in an unusual harmonic and contrapuntal style. Music Review: Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition 2010-12-16T05:00:06Z Every role is significant in an opera so rich with ensembles, including a climactic Act I sextet almost as memorable as the enduring sextet from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” and more contrapuntally intricate. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Their newness to this world distinguishes them when the screen becomes too crowded; so do the intensity of their contrapuntal performances and the pathos of their characters’ back story as refugees turned lab rats. Review: ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Gets the Superband Back Together 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The first movement was especially fascinating, full of stops and starts and contrapuntal complexities. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Serkin drew merely fleeting contrapuntal insight from Sweelinck’s “Capriccio” and found only timid fragility in Bull’s remarkable experiment in constant modulation, “Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.” Peter Serkin’s Peoples’ Symphony Concert 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Those World War II scenes contribute to the novel’s contrapuntal treatment of ethnic violence. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Typically for Mr. Hersch, “Floating” features some deft entanglements with jazz standards, beginning with the opener, a version of “You and the Night and the Music” arranged in contrapuntal 12/8 meter. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In retrospect, the words reflect both the problems that plagued Performa 11 and its strange contrapuntal energy. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z It was fascinating to hear him reveal the contrapuntal tangles of the Fugue in A minor, with its curiously abrupt theme. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z The pulsing contrapuntal play of many colors is gone, and with it the sense of multiple decisions made by different minds. Art Review: Damien Hirst Spot Paintings at Gagosian in 8 Cities - Review 2012-01-12T20:22:52Z The piece harkens back to Bach, in its “Brandenburgs”-like treatment of the ensemble and contrapuntal writing, but with a folk flavor. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Yet he never feels impassive or aloof, either: There’s tremendous emotional complexity to his contrapuntal, Romantic-influenced style. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But soon, Morris’s craftsmanship kicks in, with structural details: who does or doesn’t finish a solo by falling, for example, and the contrapuntal possibilities of four bodies. Review: Mark Morris Live(ish) Seems Almost Like Old Times 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The rib-eye is smartly paired with piccalilli and mini cheddar-and-horseradish popovers, just the rousing contrapuntal notes for the meat's rich marbling and char. Terra Vista at the Snoqualmie Casino offers big portions, breathtaking views, hefty prices 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z Commonplace now, the notion of a documentary without a voice-over, predicated on the juxtaposition of archival footage and contrapuntal interviews was novel in 1969 and proved highly influential. In the Heat of Battle, ‘In the Year of the Pig’ 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z There were big outbursts, too, but with preference instead on unraveling webs of contrapuntal voices. Pianist Stephen Kovacevich’s deft hands still have a solid grasp 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z He’s loaded up “Air” with terrific supporting players, including Jason Bateman and Chris Tucker, who, as Nike suits, add distinct flavor and some brilliant contrapuntal timing to the mix. ‘Air’ Review: The Game Changers 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z He has done dry contrapuntal stuff, no doubt original and excellent from the musician's point of view, but not at all appropriate from mine. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Westhoff incorporated techniques like bariolage, a fast alternation between static and changing notes, which Bach also used to create contrapuntal textures. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z Poised between Germany and America, its mysterious yet lively contrapuntal semaphore leaves you wondering what would have followed, had Blinky Palermo been granted more than a dozen very full years of maturity. Art Review: Thinking Outside the Canvas 2011-04-26T23:58:11Z On the five-part harmony section of the title track Mr. Wescott curbed his contrapuntal tendencies in favor of a unified wash of voices. Music: Less Fleet, but More Mature, Foxes 2011-04-29T18:36:51Z Their insinuating, sensual lines unfold together, but the musical effect is not exactly contrapuntal: the two voices sound almost codependent. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Gatti coaxed superb colour from the orchestra, especially the ever-busy woodwind, and kept textures transparent to support the ensembles as they divided and reshaped in various contrapuntal patterns. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z The problems of contrapuntal writing particular to group biography are not really solved; a paragraph about one sister just follows one about another. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z The "Jupiter", No 41, dense with musical argument, alert with vivid effect as in the muted strings of the slow movement, explodes into contrapuntal brilliance. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z In the company of Mr. Lee’s delicate contrapuntal arrangements of sand, rope and boulders, Dia’s American and German all-stars suddenly seemed a bit ponderous. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The chorus displayed its customary fine blend and purity of tone, even if the composer’s contrapuntal writing didn’t stand a chance against the cathedral’s cloud of reverberation. Cathedral Choral Society delivers a powerful ‘Creation’ 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The opera begins madcap, with the servants’ exits and dizzying greetings of “enchanted” in complex ensembles nearly impossible to contrapuntally untangle. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z For a piece now considered to be a summation of a lifetime of contrapuntal mastery and spiritual depth, it is astonishing to realize that Bach probably never had any intention of having it performed. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The contrapuntal energy of images and music is powerful; it opens you up to grasp, at a new depth, realities that you may think you already know. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z There is certainly an element of the contrapuntal in this ghazal. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z After the abstract violin-like sounds on Momento, the set becomes contrapuntally energetic and fiercely funky on The Barbarella Syndrome, and nears a kind of dissonant Celtic folk music on Rescue Her. Berne/Black/Cline/BB & C: The Veil ? review 2011-07-28T21:29:01Z Renaissance music is a specialized repertory; thus this most complex contrapuntal music is a niche within a niche. Classical recordings: early voices in new lights 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Violinist Robyn Ballinger was most impressive in the sunny Prelude from Violin Partita No. 3, a constant stream of running notes from which contrapuntal lines emerged. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The works by Gounod on this CD are lumbering curiosities, but the depth and range of the pedal piano’s sound in the contrapuntal passages are fascinating. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Anna Netrebko, Handel, Schoenberg and More 2014-03-26T17:03:14Z The excellent Trinity singers sang beautifully throughout, including the Christians’ “Come mighty Father” and the elaborately contrapuntal “He saw the lovely youth.” Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z The ensemble’s Mostly Mozart programs include folk music from eastern Georgia, in which two melismatic voices sing over a moving drone bass, and complex contrapuntal works from Guria, in western Georgia. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z Miranda's music, with its Latin beat and contrapuntal layering of Spanish and English, rap and song is robustly sung by one and all. Review: Vivacious, zesty 'In the Heights' ? on tour stop in Seattle ? has plenty of high points 2010-10-01T20:49:00Z There’s a potted history of the early 20th-century “organ wars” and a disquisition on “chiff,” the breath of air at the beginning of each note that keeps contrapuntal music from becoming “soft and muddy.” Matthew Crawford and How to Survive Brain-Eating Distractions 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “The Big House” is also notable for its creatively percussive and contrapuntal use of sound. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Other instruments create contrapuntal layers that reach the verge of a resolution before morphing into something else. Music Review: Surprises in a Setting That Could Wither 2011-07-11T21:52:04Z Ornaments were crisply articulated and contrapuntal lines were strikingly independent and gracefully turned. | Ran Dank: Wide-Ranging Program for Prizewinning Pianist 2009-12-17T05:52:00Z Each madrigal, moreover, begins with a serene, straightforward melody but gradually becomes contrapuntally intricate and agitated and multidimensional. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Those are qualities ideal for contrapuntal Bach — the Overture to the Fourth Orchestral Suite was the curtain-raiser — and for a necessary unsweetening of saccharine Barber. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Serpentine and densely contrapuntal, Mr. Threadgill’s music wound around a deep, funky pocket without settling in, as tiny riffs and parade-band gestures tangled into a heady thicket of oozing, jolting exuberance. Music Review: Roulette Opens in Brooklyn With Camilla Hoitenga - Review 2011-09-16T23:40:28Z Each work unfolds as just two contrapuntal lines, two voices, one for each hand. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z During most of this piece, alive with feisty streams of 16th notes, the music is written as an intricate, racing contrapuntal canon. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z During the complex, contrapuntal choruses, like “He trusted in God,” Ms. Glover trusted in Handel, drawing depth and clarity from the chorus and orchestra without interpretive fussiness. Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Elsewhere his contrapuntal dexterity suggests a closer peer, Brad Mehldau, though never to the point of emulation. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z A fantastical episode is run through with rigorous contrapuntal passages. Review: Thomas Dausgaard Should Be a Philharmonic Regular 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z For a dazzling solo on the riq, a Middle Eastern frame drum, Mr. Velez used palm, knuckles, fingertips and delicate wrist movements to create a dizzying contrapuntal texture. Music Review: Great Music in a Great Space at St. John the Divine 2013-05-06T15:51:49Z Those were extraordinary days, akin to being enclosed by an igloo of contrapuntal sound, one brick at a time. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The work is the same, but the distinction between the sleek, modern keyboard sounds, and those on the recorded track, yields a new measure of contrapuntal clarity. Music Review: Continuing a Continuing Story by Renewing His Early New Music 2011-07-01T22:24:00Z Dirty Projectors, from New York City, play intricate, highly contrapuntal songs that mingle African-style guitar lines, Renaissance polyphony, Minimalism and twisted funk. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z The preludes are wondrously varied in character and approach; the fugues range from seemingly straightforward contrapuntal excursions to formidably complex, hard-driving statements. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z By contrast, the concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, again Bach's own transcription of a concerto originally for violin, embraced more passionate engagement, with flowing rhythms and contrapuntal lines. Kammerorchester Basel/Schr?der/Hewitt 2010-05-25T21:00:00Z The challenge for a pianist is to convey the bouncy character of a dance while bringing clarity to the intricate contrapuntal lines. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z And in Bach’s more freely contrapuntal writing Mr. Tritle oversaw a superbly balanced, carefully sculptured performance. Music Review: Kent Tritle Directs New Music Series at St. John the Divine 2012-04-01T20:52:56Z Mozart, who studied Bach’s contrapuntal techniques, wrote arrangements of some of his fugues for Sunday afternoon gatherings at the Vienna home of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a diplomat and musical connoisseur. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z They could barely be heard, and proved an annoyance, although they probably helped the chorus maintain steadiness in the difficult contrapuntal passages. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z When the orchestra breaks into a passage of contrapuntal lines the music can sound like an echoing muddle. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z Beneath its surface beauties, this is contrapuntally and harmonically complex music. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z Hough brought the same incisiveness to Franck's Prélude, Chorale and Fugue, its climactic contrapuntal web balancing that of the Bach, but ending in a typically Franckian carillon flourish. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z His numerous works — a sizable body of skillfully fashioned, traditionally structured scores, written mostly in a pungently chromatic harmonic language alive with intricate contrapuntal writing — do not turn up today as often as they deserve. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z These were artisanal drinks with history and gravitas and a contrapuntal range of flavors — sweet, sour, savory, bitter — that hadn’t been balanced in generations. 2010-01-16T05:19:00Z “And it depends on the contrapuntal arrangement of contrasting ideas: time and eternity; past and present; masculine and feminine; innocence and experience.” ‘The Tree of Life’ Unfurls, With a Live Orchestra and Choir 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But at her core, since she is such an elegant and insightful musician, she also plays with an acute sensitivity to harmonic shadings and contrapuntal complexities and, when it is called for, uncanny textural clarity. Classical Recordings: Inner Personalities of Composers and Performers 2011-04-10T02:00:18Z Ms. Beglarian’s “I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long” is more assertive: its violin line begins with outgoing bursts and becomes increasingly contrapuntal, thanks to a touch of digital delay. Music Review: Violinists, Plugged in, Bow, Pluck and Twang 2011-05-27T22:16:21Z Straightening them out allowed Davis to amplify his flair for contrapuntal hues, which later reached a jazzy intricacy that retains the spirit of his loose-limbed beginnings. In the galleries: Mapmaker Michael Francis Reagan goes bold in exhibit at Gallery A Couperin’s “Precatio ad Deum,” for a tenor and two basses, with its sequence of solo lines and trio responses, for example, was offset by Purcell’s richly contrapuntal “O dive custos,” for three sopranos. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z Within moments, glorious contrapuntal waves of movement fill the stage. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z During some episodes the instruments slither around as if in a contrapuntal free-for-all, or break into frenetic busyness, or bring time to a standstill through hazy, hovering chords. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z Bach’s aim was to show all the possibilities for contrapuntal treatment of a fugue theme, called the subject. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z The contrapuntal writing, though continually varied and inventive, adheres to straightforward practice. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z Mr. Steel contributed several works and arrangements, including a piece he titled “Angels on High,” which wove carols together in a contrapuntally vigorous tapestry that ended on an unexpectedly dissonant note. Music Review: Vox Vocal Ensemble and Friends, in Spiral Formation 2013-12-18T22:09:28Z At heart it’s a study in contrapuntal systems, with compositions full of whirring gears. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z Through notation and conducting he stirs the flow of music in several directions at once, forming stimulating dissonance and contrapuntal shapes between tidal currents of chords. Music Review: Surprises From Someone Fans Thought They Knew 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z Unfolding in steady, ruminative contrapuntal lines, this modal music practically invited the audience to settle in and listen. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He was inspired by that city’s cathedral, whose grandeur is reflected in the solemnity of the fourth movement, colored with contrapuntal brass lines and given a majestic performance here. Music Review: Schumann and Zimmermann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-22T21:20:00Z The main interest in Tallis and Sheppard generally lies in the middle, in the thick of the contrapuntal play. Review: The Tallis Scholars, Hovering in a Meditative Sphere 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Through film, she was able not only to capture the motion of a dance itself, but also to add contrapuntal movement through camera work and cutting. Elaine Summers, Who Meshed Dance and Film, Dies at 89 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z When sections repeat he varies not just ornamentation but the weight and articulation of the contrapuntal voices. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Bach pushed the boundaries of contrapuntal possibility in “The Art of Fugue.” Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z It includes 14 elaborate fugues, about an hour’s worth of the most riveting, complex and astonishing contrapuntal music ever written. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Playing with crystalline clarity and a rhythmic buoyancy that highlights the works’ dance elements, Mr. Schiff reveals the contrapuntal brilliance and the joy, wit and melancholy of these 24 preludes and fugues. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z Her band, mixing Western and African instruments, clearly knows its rock and reggae but keeps its African perspective, while a sinewy production flaunts every contrapuntal cascade. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z The contrapuntal dialogue, parallel rhythms and visual dynamics of this tone poem are "Sextet's" most musical aspects, in sync with the quoted passages of the composers' works. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z The reedy woodwinds, mellow brass and velvety strings have such distinctive colorings that strange inner voices and fitful contrapuntal crosscurrents in the music emerged anew. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z Serkin also joins the Orion Quartet for the 2003 Piano Quintet, which seems drier and more contrapuntal, more academic almost, than the other pieces here. Lieberson: Red Garuda; Rilke Songs; Piano Quintet, etc 2010-06-03T21:46:00Z Stravinsky, a contrapuntal master himself, spoke of his fascination with Georgian singing, whose rich polyphonic tradition dates to the pagan era. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z But these contrapuntal beats are too infrequent, and the director, Urie, hasn’t worked enough nuance into the more antic sections. Review | Too much monotone in ‘Bright Colors’ at Studio Theatre 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z And it depends on the contrapuntal arrangement of contrasting ideas: time and eternity; past and present; masculine and feminine; innocence and experience. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z One reaches the tomb via narrow alleys that are contrapuntally chaotic. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Both performances combined austere attentiveness to Bach’s contrapuntal writing with a plush, almost Romantic expressivity that invited listeners in. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z “She treated the bravura of this busily intricate contrapuntal score with its volatile Hungarian rhythms as something she eats for breakfast,” writes Times classical music critic Mark Swed. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. Phil wraps up the season, Tony Awards coming up, reconsidering Frank Lloyd Wright 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Performing these intricately contrapuntal works from memory, Mr. Schiff played them almost without pausing, taking only enough time to set the mood for each piece. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z In “Guilt,” she starts out confessing, “Ooh, it hurts/It hurts so much I want to cry” over nothing but stark, bowed double stops; later, a contrapuntal cello melody becomes her companion in loneliness. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z In “The Art of Fugue,” a collection of 14 fugues and four canons, Bach explored myriad possibilities for different contrapuntal treatment of an initial fugal subject in D minor. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Bach at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-28T21:20:20Z He began with the dance-dedicated Whirl, a typically glittering stream of contrapuntal invention, skipping melodies and nonchalantly shifting chord patterns that occasionally suggested a distant Astaire-Rogers soundtrack. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z Mr. O’Rourke tucked virtuosity into his guitar playing, with intricately contrapuntal picking and meticulous dynamics. Music Review: Declan O’Rourke at the Irish Arts Center 2013-04-25T21:24:15Z Simultaneously, contrapuntally, the film follows the campaign of Calvin Burns, the country's first African American police chief, to become its first African American sheriff. Two documentaries: '1971' on PBS, 'Southern Rites' from HBO 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Dresser is the anchor in their midst, and every bit as active with his use of contrapuntal texture. Playlist: New CDs: Albatrosh, Trio M, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z The symphony was useful: Bruckner opened up temporal space and proved his contrapuntal craft, but that musical muscle stretching would serve him better in the glorious Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z For the first half of her set, the performer segued from song to song as quickly and precisely as she cycled through contrapuntal riffs. Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley supply Drinks at U Street Music Hall 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The first and final movements feature more contrapuntal motion and tonal ambiguity. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Despite the Emerson’s blistering pace, rhythmic drive and relentless aggression, the contrapuntal lines never devolved into chaos. Emerson String Quartet at Baird Auditorium masters the ‘Art of Fugue’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Those influences are immediately apparent in the movement, which infuses a classical vocabulary with quirky, jazzy disruptions of form as 13 dancers keep remaking broad geometric patterns, then splintering into contrapuntal groups, duos and solos. Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in ‘The Second Detail’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The program then turned to a cappella works, starting with Brahms’s “Celebratory and Memorial Sayings,” three rich-textured and harmonically bold late scores, followed by an elaborately contrapuntal Brahms motet. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Hadn't heard for a long time and – potentially erroneous technical terminology ahoy – the contrapuntal melodies work rather beautifully. Readers recommend: Songs with 10 words or fewer 2010-05-27T23:01:00Z Then the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came in a side door and, contrapuntally, they went round the room. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z The four performers don’t attempt intricate folk-rock harmonies, but they do sometimes sing contrapuntal parts, delivering dueling phrases simultaneously or slathering “oohs” or “ohs” beneath the lyrics. Review | Bad Moves band’s shared vocals rock the Black Cat 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Thompson and her editor, Sylvie Landra, adroitly capture the eddies and squalls of casual conversation, as the polished cast works in harmonious dissonance to strike contrapuntal notes of idiosyncrasy. | 'Change of Plans': All Kiss-and-Tell and Wink-and-Nod at a Crowded Dinner Party 2010-08-26T23:23:00Z In the first movement, a brooding Moderato that builds to shattering climaxes, he drew transparent playing from the Philharmonic, allowing the rigorous contrapuntal writing to come through with affecting presence. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z One key passage was after the transition between the last two numbers of the Gloria, which the choir just ripped into with gusto and thrilling contrapuntal singing. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s Seventh, slyly quoted at one point, was a model for Shapero’s piece, which opens with an elusive Adagio, all flickering chords and sustained sonorities, that shifts into a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z From the first strains of Bach in “Concerto Barocco,” and throughout, the corps of eight women attacked the steps with enlivening snap, pouncing on Bach’s and Balanchine’s rhythms and making the clean, contrapuntal patterns crackle. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z But she overcame her initial trepidation and uses her trademark musical intelligence, taste and elegance to potently illuminate the contrapuntal marvels of this elaborate masterpiece. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The film’s contrapuntal structure, which moved among three different stories to explore a common theme, would become a key element in Mr. Resnais’s later work. Alain Resnais, Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Is Dead at 91 2014-03-02T16:40:47Z At 60, he’s an acknowledged influence among composer-improvisers, who are drawn to the expressive commitment and lurching, contrapuntal force of his music. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z There’s less yammering and hyperbolizing, and McDonagh makes fine contrapuntal use of the landscape’s visual drama and of the chasm separating these characters. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z There was still time, let me add, for a contrapuntal round of cruise-ship bingo, trivia contests or that seaweed massage . While cruising, learn more by tapping the power of plugged-in local guides 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Carter's overture, though sharing some of Copland's upbeat diatonic flavour, had an admixture of Carter-ish contrapuntal complexity and dissonance. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Two-sax front lines represent a powerful tradition in bop-based jazz, and their headlong contrapuntal dialogues often build to thundering finales that get audiences whooping. This week's new live music 2013-01-12T06:00:12Z It doesn’t have the contrapuntal richness of the rest of the work; it’s as if Sachs is really listening, like it’s an earworm. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Swafford’s craftsmanship shines in the meeting of these contrapuntal lines: Beethoven’s personal heroism against illness and adversity, Napoleon’s world-conquering heroism, both seemingly servants of broader freedoms. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As the choruses alternated in a series of pungent multidimensional sonorities, individual voices engaged in fleeting contrapuntal crossfire. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z That’s because these layered and contrapuntal voices produce a dazzling spectrum of effects, like the swelling harmonies associated with traditional choral music and the crystal pings of personal computers. Review: The Human Voice Versus the Internet in ‘Octet’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z I had always said I could never do that song because it’s got such a complicated bass part that it’s almost impossible to sing the melody, which is kind of contrapuntal. Sir Paul on Fans, the Beatles and Himself 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z What holds the movie together, for all its jittery syntax and rug-pulling midpoint twist, is the furiously combative, contrapuntal energy that courses between Silva and Firstman. Review: 'Rotting in the Sun' is the horny, thorny Instagay meta-mystery you've been waiting for 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The zooms in and out also establish a crucial, contrapuntal rhythm between doctors and patients, and also between the physical and the abstract. Review: A deep-cut masterwork, 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' is already one of 2023's best movies 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z He proceeds with the contrapuntal logic he never leaves home without. Review: Steve Reich remains as vital as ever with a new composition, recordings, book and more 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z And she’s finally learning to drive after putting it off in favor of learning how to write a contrapuntal. 'Minding my people's business': An acclaimed Sudanese American poet makes a home in L.A. 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z He rushed through contrapuntal thickets, like a rabbit hopping in the woods, and slowed to a snail’s pace in minor-keyed variations. Review: Lang Lang and Yuja Wang at Disney Hall: the piano recital made modern 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Bach’s wondrous contrapuntal complexity, full of numerical symbolism and mathematical purity, is mirrored on stage with the dancers assuming architectural set pieces of great beauty. The Hamburg Ballet tackles Bach and Bernstein with rich imagery and movement 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The strings are divided into two groups and operate in contrapuntal dialogue, building a universe in sound from the lowest notes. Review: A new piano concerto by Daníel Bjarnason gets a little help from Edgar Allan Poe 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The contrapuntal interplay of their voices, his memorized lines filling in the silences between her recorded ones, beautifully sums up their mutual devotion. Review: In 'Drive My Car,' Ryûsuke Hamaguchi delivers a haunting masterpiece of art and life 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Frogs croak, a skylark soars above all in dazzling pianistic glitter, grasshopper warblers rattle as their names suggest, and one reed warbler enters into a rapturous contrapuntal duet with another. Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen's 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.'s Audubon Center 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Daryl Hall: Yeah, I like that sort of contrapuntal background vocal. Hall And Oates: How You Make My Dreams became a streaming hit 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z And yet, for me, some of the less successful nonalcoholic drinks have failed primarily because they don’t provide the contrapuntal sweetness that makes, say, a Negroni work. Good zero-proof drinks aren’t just for Dry January. Here are some products we’ve tried — and liked. 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Rhythms gained mathematical complexity, as theorists demonstrated ways of creating contrapuntal structures based on square roots and cubing numbers. Machaut's 'Notre Dame': Why a 14th century mass is the genesis of modern music 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Having become a well-established composer, he returned to school to hone his contrapuntal skills and wrote sassy fugues and supposedly pointless music, which he called “furnishing music,” meant only to be heard in the background. Commentary: Why Satie? Why now? How one composer embodies our time of loneliness and angst 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Voices of a surveyor, a geologist, a nurse, a government official and a writer intertwined as though contrapuntal voices in a Bach fugue or suite. Commentary: Glenn Gould's decades-old radio documentaries still resonate. Podcasters, take note 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Sentimental Stephen Foster tunes jostled contrapuntally with Beethoven and Brahms and Dvorák, the composers he studied at Yale. Review: L.A. Phil's Ives-Dvorák cycle seemed like a bad idea. Dudamel made it a revelation 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z He doesn’t give equal length to contrapuntal lines. Commentary: Bach's 'Art of the Fugue' now (by Daniil Trifonov) and then (by John Cage) 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Under the direction of Mitchill, the group had less than two weeks to master some fairly complex harmonies and contrapuntal arrangements. Tony Orlando sings with students, urges them to dream 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “It’s more homophonic but he keeps interspersing that with contrapuntal passages. That mixture is really wonderful - it’s really exciting.” Chorus holiday program features classics that feel familiar 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The spatial structure accounts for an almost musical feel to much of this work, sometimes straightforward and sometimes contrapuntal. Review: More is more. Why the 'Pattern and Decoration' show at MOCA is pure pleasure 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “Beethoven’s senses of structure, fantasy, variety, thematic continuity, harmonic propulsion and contrapuntal discipline were absolutely — miraculously — in alignment.” Review | Beethoven: The genius who broke all the rules 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z He is a young player with a touch as staccato as if he were playing a Scarlatti sonata and a nearly Baroque contrapuntal way of improvising, yet he bends pitches. Review: L.A. Phil revives the neglected 'dean of African American composers' 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z At a time when homophony was coming to the fore—melody over accompaniment—Duarte’s contrapuntal interplay of lines would have had a somewhat old-fashioned sound. The Dizzying Democratization of Baroque Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “This four-part chorus is without instruments, but it opens so lyrically and contrapuntally, and then it goes into these sections that are just very fanciful and kind of startling. It’s just a really charming piece.” Chorus holiday program features classics that feel familiar 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I get a little thrill every time I hear the contrapuntal duet, a lovely back-and-forth between two smitten people who don’t really want their evening to end. Baby, there's nothing wrong with a little sexy banter at Christmastime 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The dramatic poetry may fall short, but the storytelling moves in a contrapuntal rhythm and the shifts from prose to an audacious lyricism reveal a writer impatient with prosaic chat. Review: Tom Morton-Smith's drama 'Oppenheimer' dissects the conscience of the father of the atomic bomb - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z And crème brûlée might be loved only half as much without the contrapuntal crackle of burned sugar. Nothing Satisfies the Need for Crunch Like Biscotti 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Centuries’ worth of contrapuntal development that led to Bach’s sublime fugues and Bartok’s wondrous string quartets was seemingly discarded by the stroke of a musical anarchist. Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The internet is a great way for fans to party contrapuntally. Perfected by Bach, fugues have enjoyed an impressive afterlife 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z He used repetitive loops that felt as if they’d been imported from electronic music, and contrapuntal rhythmic patterns that made the mind whirl. The Ethereal Genius of Craig Taborn 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z As a result, Martin was often asked to flesh out the band's songs with string arrangements and contrapuntal melodies. Sir George Martin: Five of his most innovative songs - BBC News 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The Donald devotees sang a contrapuntal tune, simultaneously a dirge to national decline and an ode to Trump. Donald Trump Supporters Vent Frustration In Frank Luntz Focus Group 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Centuries’ worth of contrapuntal development that led to Bach’s fugues and Bartok’s string quartets was discarded by the stroke of a musical anarchist. Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Baroque music, which is contrapuntal, makes no great fuss about harmony, surely an appealing trait to a contrarian at odds with society. William F. Buckley would have loathed Fox News: Inside the right-wing media’s intellectual downfall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z George Gershwin’s “Summertime” is a solo spotlight for Eubanks who overdubs acoustic guitar and bass lines to engage in contrapuntal playing with himself. Review: Eubanks, Jordan display special chemistry on new CD 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The right hand, meanwhile, darts and clicks with a mouse, contrapuntally, so frantic that carpal-tunnel syndrome and tendinitis are common side effects. The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Manning the pipe organ in Fellowship Hall last month, he offered a pulsating rendition of his “Fantasia on Te Deum,” complete with blues riffs and modal motifs woven into the piece’s contrapuntal fabric. | Westchester: At Peace With a Certain Level of Renown 2014-05-03T21:24:42Z Even more remarkable, I now hear echoes in Riley’s own string quartets of the contrapuntal respect we all got from Denny. Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z On April 5, Mr. Hand’s program will include his contrapuntal composition “Prayer,” a Grammy-nominated work that he described as “my homage to Bach.” | Long Island: Long Island Guitar Festival at L.I.U. Post in Brookville 2014-03-29T04:12:26Z To gain a musical insight into the pieces you play you must be able to follow the course of their harmonies and understand the contrapuntal treatment of their themes. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z In the madrigal the movement of the voices is strictly contrapuntal, while the more modern form allows of freer treatment and more compact harmonies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Like the Greeks, he believed in an elaborate criticism of language, and the metrical movements of prose were scientifically and artistically interesting to him, as any student of harmony takes pleasure in a contrapuntal exercise. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The nearest modern equivalent to the development of the whole Greek world of art is to be found in German contrapuntal music. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It is here that his contrapuntal skill and his sound musical scholarship are chiefly shown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z How often we hear the remark that contrapuntal treatment is best suited to the organ! The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z It is an all but unparalleled tour de force of learned musicianship, being written entirely in that most difficult of contrapuntal devices—the canon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z After further contrapuntal wanderings of the theme, the fugue comes to what is called an episode, after which the theme is presented first, in the dominant. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The most compelling works achieve a contrapuntal synthesis. The Score: After Tahrir, New Voices in a Global Fugue 2011-07-06T23:39:13Z Musical structures reflect the subject matter, as in “Virus,” in which contrapuntal inner parts multiply as the virus overcomes the defenses of its host cell. Critic's Notebook: Far Beyond the Play Button 2011-07-01T14:55:12Z We have seen that contrapuntal treatment, so-called, owed its origin to the nature of the organ. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z He grips me without pity, He binds me with a thong Of contrapuntal ditty, Of syncopated song! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z I only decided that point after finishing the first part, when I saw clearly what ensemble was demanded by the contrapuntal material, the character, and structure of what I had composed. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z In a contrapuntal passage of music, each line, even when woven together with other lines to form a cohesive tapestry, retains its own beauty. The Score: After Tahrir, New Voices in a Global Fugue 2011-07-06T23:39:13Z This duet is full of clever bits of imitation and good contrapuntal part-writing, and is melodious as well. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Little by little the piano emancipated itself from the strict contrapuntal chain which bound it to the organ, until, in the sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven, it emerged into a new life. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z At its best, the forward-line tandem of Henry and Angel will operate like a see-saw, the two of them making contrapuntal moves, up and down, to draw defenders and create space for one another. Red Bulls 1, Toronto 0: Red Bulls Display Some of Their Star Power 2010-08-12T04:31:00Z My idea was that my symphony should be a work with great contrapuntal development, and for that it was necessary to increase the media at my disposal. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z So cue contrapuntal UK grins, plus smug lectures on the competitive wonders of our own fantastic press? Japan and Korea have kept their newspaper readers, so why can't Fleet Street? 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z This is followed by a rather contrapuntal arrangement of the well-known old morris-dance, and the whole movement finishes with "Lightie Love Ladies," said by the publishers and Hatton to be "Shakespeare's favourite tune." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z They revelled in fugue, and even danced contrapuntally. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z Here, then, is the other piece of Berlin’s contrapuntal narrative: the interweaving of African-American assertion and racist reaction, the making and remaking of America’s relentless racial system. Book Review | 'The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations,' by Ira Berlin 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z Mr. Denk, for example, likened Bach’s shifting of accents in the contrapuntal interplay between the piano and violin to a kind of “proto-jazz.” Arts | Westchester: Sharing a Sixth Sense in Musical Collaboration 2010-02-27T00:21:00Z What is always important is the peculiar life breathed into harmony by contrapuntal organization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The persistent use of the idiom of "false relation" throughout the whole piece gives it a curious interest; and the contrapuntal and harmonic devices are also quite elaborate. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The chorale is not employed in its original form, but is elaborated with all the contrapuntal skill for which Bach was so famous. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers These compositions, 437 which combine graceful melody with contrapuntal learning, were much admired by Cherubini. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" In the whole treatise not one example is given from Palestrina or any other master who handled as a living language what are now the forms of contrapuntal discipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" But in the first eight bars of the second part of the variation a third contrapuntal voice appears, and this too is afterwards inverted in the 12th, with perfectly natural and smooth effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" If Flaubert in Sentimental Education originated a novel structure in fiction, Conrad may claim the same honour; his edifice, in its contrapuntal presentation of character and chapter suspensions, is new, tantalisingly, bewilderingly, refreshingly, new. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The “contrapuntal” forms, then, are historically the earliest and aesthetically the simplest in music; the simplest, that is to say, in principle, but not necessarily the easiest to appreciate or to execute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Caccini, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, broke away from the contrapuntal music of the church because it made the words unintelligible. The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation Any familiarity with Mozart's works will convince us of the gratitude we owe him for his original harmonies, for the stimulating contrapuntal texture and for the perfect finish and care for detail found therein. Music: An Art and a Language Almost all other contrapuntal devices are derived from the principle of the canon and are discussed in the article Contrapuntal Forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Variations, subtle, beautiful, a refined and fuller contrapuntal treatment, mingled with the chorale. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 All these devices are also independent of the canonic idea, since they are so many methods of transforming themes in themselves and need not always be used in contrapuntal combination. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" The purity of style to be found in Bach, in connection with his marvelous contrapuntal designs, should be expounded to the student at as early an age as his intellectual development will permit. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The answering phrase, antithesis, is now quite different; and, in measure 48, is developed—with some new contrapuntal voices—to a half cadence in F minor. Music: An Art and a Language Is music to be prized and taken to our hearts because it is contrapuntal and complex? The Merry-Go-Round The complication of the works of the contrapuntal school almost passes belief. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations He exercised his contrapuntal ingenuity by devising schemes for circumventing this troublesome passage in the canto fermo of his life without breaking any of the rules, and finally hit upon the device of running away. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Because he has worked out certain contrapuntal and technical problems which place him in a class all by himself. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression But Sousa can write other things than marches, and his scoring is full of variety, freedom, and contrapuntal brilliance. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Hence we find more decided contrapuntal effects, the canon and fugue forms, and even the plain, serious style of the early devotional music of the Church in the days of Gregory and Palestrina. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers By the thirteenth or fourteenth century the pre-eminence had been transferred to the Low Countries, and the Netherlands became the great hothouse of contrapuntal development. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The academic writer, steeped in his contrapuntal devices and harmonic progressions, so intent upon the orthodox resolution of his discords, is apt to produce excellent dry bones without the informing spirit. Spirit and Music During the contrapuntal epoch her music flourished as never before or since, and side by side with the Shakespearian period in literature came an era of musical glory scarcely inferior to it. Woman's Work in Music At the time when such puerility was disturbing this cradle of freedom and cacophony, Bach and Händel were at work in their contrapuntal webs, the Scarlattis, Corelli and Tartini and Porpora were alive. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The whole is an astonishing piece of contrapuntal skill, apparently inexhaustible in its scientific combinations, and yet never for an instant losing its deep religious significance. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers In the working out of their respective talents, both these composers show their well-schooled musicianship, according to all the learning of the contrapuntal schools—but with very important differences. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations They were singing some song in two parts, and while the one half sustained the melody the others were rolling out a fine contrapuntal accompaniment with full, resonant, and sonorous tone. Spirit and Music The women of the earlier schools of contrapuntal work have already been mentioned. Woman's Work in Music Gilchrist is one of our most polished composers contrapuntally, but has been here in a very lyric mood. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The beginnings of contrapuntal and polyphonic music have been traced to what is now known as the old French school, having its active period between about 1100 and 1370, or thereabouts. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Those last few bars prove that Chopin—they once called him amateurish in his harmonies!—could do what he pleased in the contrapuntal line. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Its rhythm and accents are arranged not by the needs of contrapuntal development, but by the meter of the line and the accent of the Italian tongue. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera More free in form was the motet, in which religious subjects were treated in contrapuntal fashion. Woman's Work in Music All four instruments have an equal voice in the parley, and all the outbursts are emotional rather than contrapuntal. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The culmination of the contrapuntal school and the dawn of the new era in church music came about through the labors of the pupil of Goudimel, the great Palestrina. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present These 'fancies' were always contrapuntal, and the various artificial contrivances, answering of points, imitations, and what not, are referred to under this title. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries In it the frottola, raised to an art form and equipped with the wealth of contrapuntal device, passed almost insensibly into a new life. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera For all their apparent freedom, they are full of the oldest musical procedures, abound in canonic imitations, in augmentations, and diminutions, in all sorts of grizzled contrapuntal manœvers. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The second movement, a romanza, shows more contrapuntal resource, and is full of a deep yearning and appeal,—an extremely beautiful movement. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Hence there is a distinct gain in smoothness of melody, and there are occasional appearances of truly expressive quality in this part of the music, even in the most elaborate of the contrapuntal compositions. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present A motet is a sacred choral composition in contrapuntal style. Music Notation and Terminology Their revolt against the contrapuntal lyric drama was largely, though not wholly, based on deep-seated objection to the unintelligibility of the text. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera For, like Bruckner's, they appear chosen with an eye to their serviceability for contrapuntal deformation and dissection. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Their magnificence and purity revealed to the censors the possibilities of contrapuntal music in sanctuary devotion and praise. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The contrapuntal schools had done more to educate harmonic perception than is commonly supposed. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Both vocal and instrumental music have been written in contrapuntal style. Music Notation and Terminology When the basic laws of contrapuntal technic had been codified, Josquin des Pr�s led the way to the production of music possessing a beauty purely musical. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera One is ever conscious in Reger that he is solving contrapuntal problems in order to astonish the vulgar herd of the professors. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The great Bach infused this into his fugues, the highest manifestation of the contrapuntal, or polyphonic music of old. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Some have derived it from Mary, and point to the sacred madrigals, many of which were composed by all the contrapuntal writers. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It is in contrapuntal style, like the motet, and is usually sung a capella. Music Notation and Terminology Their endeavors to escape the contrapuntal music of the madrigal drama were the labors of men consciously confronting conditions which had been surely, if not boldly, moving toward their own rectification. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera His labor was prodigious in spite of his frail health; and his knowledge of contrapuntal forms was such as to exact the highest encomiums from his instructors. The Great German Composers Throughout there is a warmth, a contrapuntal splendor, a breadth, an elasticity, a richness of orchestration, unknown in previous oratorio, unless in parts of some of the master's own works. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music His early studies were pursued at Rome with so much enthusiasm that at the age of fourteen he had produced several important compositions of a contrapuntal character. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The word contrapuntal is often used synonymously with polyphonic. Music Notation and Terminology He endeavored to compose in a pleasing style by hiding all contrapuntal effects as much as possible. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The object of composers seemed to be to show mere contrapuntal learning, or to furnish singers opportunity to display vocal agility. The Great German Composers Here it means the cantus firmus, the melody around which the old composers wove their contrapuntal ornamentation. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties His studies in counterpoint had never been pursued beyond the rudiments, and the last engagement he made before his death was for lessons with Sechter, the contrapuntal authority in Vienna at that time. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Before this practically all music was composed on a contrapuntal basis. Music Notation and Terminology The themes are not good of their sort, the sort being, as he said, the sort that are useful for contrapuntal working. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Without Bononcini's fire or Handel's daring originality, he represented the dry contrapuntal school of Italian music. The Great German Composers The term “contrapuntal development” is to most tone poets of the present day a synonym for the device of giving expression to a musically poetic idea. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The Cantus Firmus is a given melodic phrase that is to receive contrapuntal treatment, that is, one or more parts are to be added above or below it. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons The prelude to 'Lohengrin'—a mighty web of sound woven of one single theme—is, besides being a miracle of contrapuntal ingenuity, one of the most poetical of Wagner's many exquisite conceptions. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. So he showed himself neither a great poet-composer nor a contrapuntal adept. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The two-and three-part contrapuntal singing which is done in the sight-singing classes is admirable for this, as the whole effect is blurred or entirely spoilt in such clear-cut work by a false entry. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students There is but the slightest trace of a second theme in the first part; yet the improvement in contrapuntal design over the suites is evident. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University This technique proved admirable for vocal polyphony—how admirable we have all the Flemish and Italian and English contrapuntal music to show. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians It is really a marvel of contrapuntal ingenuity, yet it is so full of bewitching melody and healthy animal spirits that an uncultivated hearer would probably think it nothing but an ordinary jovial finale. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Then the melody of Beckmesser's grotesque is brought in and treated contrapuntally, with what theorists call free imitation in the accompaniment. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The contrapuntal formulas and prosaic melodic contours, to be used so magnificently by Handel, were never allowed to harden and fossilise in Purcell's music. Purcell The effect of the music was that of a contrapuntal nightmare, hideous to a degree which one who has not heard it cannot conceive. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University We know now that the stiff contrapuntal school marked a stage in development of music which it was necessary that music should go through. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians In his use of guiding themes, and in his contrapuntal treatment of the orchestra he follows Wagner, but his employment of new devices is tempered by due regard for established tradition. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. As a general thing no two voices in contrapuntal writing move in the same way, each voice-part being contrasted with different note-values. Music Talks with Children His counterpoint has a freedom and spontaneity not to be found in the music of the later contrapuntal, fugal, arithmetical school. Purcell It was one of the first signs of the breaking away from the conventional trammels of the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Of course both men possessed wonderful contrapuntal skill; but in Bach's case there is time and patience as well as skill, and in Handel's only consummate audacity and intellectual grip. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians From the magnificent fugue in the overture to the majestic choral finale, the music is an astonishing combination of divinely beautiful melody with marvels of contrapuntal skill. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. There is still another form of writing which is neither strictly harmonic, nor strictly contrapuntal,—it is a combination of both. Music Talks with Children When strength and sinew are wanted in the themes, they are there, and contrapuntal adaptability is there; but they are real living themes, not ossified or petrified formulas. Purcell If one were called upon to define what is called the intellectual side of music, he would probably speak of “form,” contrapuntal design, and the like. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Of Bach he said, 'Bach spoke in close, scientific, contrapuntal language. Edward MacDowell They are in appearance not so far removed from the contrapuntal type of theme, and while they sing themselves they yet served their inventors capitally for contrapuntal treatment. Haydn At first contrapuntal music may not seem interesting to us. Music Talks with Children The visible world for him existed as a contrapuntal net-work of lines, silhouettes, contours, or heavy dark masses. Promenades of an Impressionist This, of course, has no reference to the absurd fioriture and long passage work given to the voices,—an Italian fashion of the times,—but to the contrapuntal texture of the work. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University That contrapuntal music can only be sung by those who can sing at sight. Evelyn Innes Either the subjects were contrapuntal, formal, in build, or consisted of patterns made out of broken chord-series. Haydn Music written entirely by the rules of counterpoint is called contrapuntal music; that written otherwise is known as free harmonic music. Music Talks with Children Though there is no want of contrapuntal design, the workmanship never obtrudes. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies After the exposition the fugue consists of a kind of free contrapuntal fantasy on the subject and its answer. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University He was often sorry for them, for he knew that the perfect singing of this contrapuntal music was almost impossible except by castrati. Evelyn Innes With the disappearance of the contrapuntal theme coincides the end of purely contrapuntal "working" or development. Haydn The parts were all melodic, and woven together with such great skill that they yet remain masterpieces of contrapuntal writing. Music Talks with Children Song is ever supreme, and with all abundance of contrapuntal art does not become sophisticated. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies His sonorous music, with its absolute sureness of purpose, and its contrapuntal art, recalls the vision in Paradise Lost of him who— with volant touch Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue. Landmarks in French Literature Apparently the accompaniment was in unison with the singer; part writing or contrapuntal music was unknown at the troubadour period. The Troubadours From the first he used counterpoint, canon, imitation, and all the devices of the contrapuntal style. Haydn Lord Cedric clapped his hands and immediately from some curtained passage or gallery there was music; each instrument seeming to lead in contrapuntal skill. Mistress Penwick The public are sick of your crepuscular art, your harmonized neurasthenia, your contrapuntal pedantry. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The contrapuntal mass or motet expressed the commonwealth of the Church, where the individual disappears, absorbed in the community. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama So great was the scandal throughout the whole world of church music that contrapuntal music came near being abandoned entirely. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 After, say, 1785, the old contrapuntal smack has gone out of his writing, and his form has grown definite. Haydn The Pope can do much, but he will not be able to get contrapuntal music into Varese. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Humperdinck's splendid contrapuntal skill shows itself in a most varied use of this theme. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music There is decoration in the ritornelle in E flat and one feels the absence of a compensating emotion, despite the display of contrapuntal skill. Chopin : the Man and His Music 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. Haydn There are no—or few—contrapuntal formulas, hardly any mere chord progressions broken into arpeggios and figurated designs. Haydn 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. A Second Book of Operas The Pope can do much, but he will not be able to get contrapuntal music into Varese. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino He reserved the expression of his merry mood for the regular set numbers in which he could make one of his wonderful contrapuntal traceries of pure ornament with the requisite gaiety of line and movement. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring 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. Haydn The themes sing and the music takes its impulse and motion from them; the web is no longer made up of contrapuntal workings: counterpoint is never more than an accompaniment, a helpful device. Haydn "Lift up your heads" and "Hallelujah" do not owe their glory to the text, but to that tremendous energy of rhythmic and contrapuntal progression which the text serves to concentrate and justify. The Unseen World and Other Essays Those first and second subjects with the half-closes between—they became as dreadful in their unfailing regularity as the contrapuntal formalism they drove out of fashion. Haydn |
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