the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion. Parallel motion is motion in the same direction...

skipwise or no movement, respectively. See also contrapuntal motion. In a conjunct melodic motion, the melodic phrase moves in a stepwise fashion; that...

developed a theory which covers and generalizes a wide range of advanced contrapuntal phenomena, including what is known to the English-speaking theorists...

Ending, 2009 Contrapuntal motion, movement of two melodic lines in relation to each other Melodic motion, movement between consecutive notes Motion, Shasta...

guitar playing throughout the song is marked by chordal arpeggios and contrapuntal motion, with tremolo-picked partial chords providing the musical foundation...

several nontraditional tonal conceptions, such as tonal assertion or contrapuntal motion around a central chord. Although associated with the neoclassicism...

guitar playing throughout the song is marked by chordal arpeggios and contrapuntal motion, with tremolo-picked partial chords providing the musical foundation...

His harmonies often result from the contrapuntal alignment of voices rather than from any sense of "harmonic motion"; contrastingly, much of his music...

identifies the opening as actually having "two competing riffs" or contrapuntal motion, with one played by Little Walter on an amplified harmonica and another...

Counting (music) Contrabass oboe Contrabassophone Contraforte Contralto Contrapuntal motion Contrast (music) Convenienze Coptic music Copula (music) Copyist...

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public...

top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music. In each of these cases, "inversion" has a distinct but...

historian Tim Sterner Miller described it:, "... two pitches changing in contrapuntal motion against a sustained common tone..." Not only was the song embraced...

In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played...

(intervals of a 2nd) rather than in disjunct motion (by leap). contralto Lowest female singing voice type contrapuntalism See counterpoint coperti (plural of coperto)...

862, from Das Wohltemperierte Clavier (Part I), a famous example of contrapuntal polyphony. Problems playing this file? See media help. Polyphony (/pəˈlɪfəni/...

the voices for the purpose of realisation. A spectacular example of contrapuntal ingenuity can be found in the double canon that forms the trio section...

alternating between sections of the orchestra and attempting to incorporate contrapuntal ideas. Davis' score combines orchestral, choral and synthesizer elements;...

Generally it refers to a pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting of a melody where a note is skipped from (typically by an interval...

strong root progressions and emphasis of root positions, weak contrapuntal bass motion, strong rhythmic placement in the measure (especially downbeat)...

troppo The whole piece is characterized by the use of several different contrapuntal devices. In England "this quartet is known as the Drum because the cello...

create variety. These include changes in "melody (contrary motion), polyphony (contrapuntal inversion), harmony (dissonance), [rhythmic] density (texture)...

octaves simultaneously, for the duration of a phrase or beyond. For contrapuntal and harmonic analysis this does not add new parts at all. By convention...

and empire in Alan Hollinghurst's 'A Thieving Boy' (1983)". Through a 'contrapuntal' analysis of his 1983 Egyptian short story 'A Thieving Boy', the article...

ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme). Polyphony (contrapuntal and ostinato variation) is common in African music and heterophony (the...

familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music,...

Schenker indeed did not present the rules of voice leading merely as contrapuntal rules, but showed how they are inseparable from the rules of harmony...

arpeggiation can stand alone. Only when acting together, when unified in a contrapuntal structure, do they produce art. The fundamental line (German: Urlinie)...

ground is not so stable. And with the children's choir there are a lot of contrapuntal voices. I think when you are very young, it's the age of terror, of fear...

example is shown below. Another "clash cadence", the English cadence, is a contrapuntal pattern particular to the authentic or perfect cadence. It features the...