His musical structures are oftencontrapuntaland baroque but his upward thrust is unwaveringly romantic and dominated by long vocal phrases.From theCambridge English Corpus
Or perhaps committing a fewcontrapuntalerrors was but a small price to pay for enabling some fine singers to perform these roles.From theCambridge English Corpus
This sense of balance is what makes hiscontrapuntalrealisation rhetorically elegant.From theCambridge English Corpus
A fundamentally dyadiccontrapuntalstructure maintains clear differences between the two constituent voices.From theCambridge English Corpus
While most studies have focused oncontrapuntalnecessity, this study advocates an approach that begins from the perspective of melody.From theCambridge English Corpus
Still, a meandering,contrapuntalprogress seems preferable to the brisk and monotonous cadence of regimented cosmopolitanism.From theCambridge English Corpus
Even the final cadence preserves thiscontrapuntalhierarchy although it may appear at first glance to subvert it.From theCambridge English Corpus
Working with five, as distinct from four,contrapuntalvoices has clearly stretched his ability to the limit.From theCambridge English Corpus
Is he referring to melodic repetition,contrapuntalrepetition and/or structural repetition?From theCambridge English Corpus
Moreover, semitone motion as melodic decoration in a polyphonic context can suggest focal pitches that are unsupported by thecontrapuntalenvironment.From theCambridge English Corpus
In this way, despite all theircontrapuntalartifices, he achieves a popular style and is agreeable to every amateur.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thiscontrapuntalimpulse took various forms, as our scholarship reveals.From theCambridge English Corpus
All these instances of part-crossing are brief, do not violate anycontrapuntalrules, and do not obscure the harmonic motion of the continuo line.From theCambridge English Corpus
The explanation for this isolated departure from what is otherwise a sharedcontrapuntalframework is easily found.From theCambridge English Corpus
No amount of harmonic orcontrapuntalmachinations succeed in aligning theme with key.From theCambridge English Corpus
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