Sentence examples for contrary motion from inspiring English sources

For example, in eastern Angola contrary motion is normal practice.

In the reprise, a bass line moves in contrary motion, further tweaking the chords above.

In practice, though, not only parallel but also oblique and contrary motion may occur.

Small, tricky details – as with crisscrossing, contrary motion between the strings and the pianist – were made opulent.

Music in Contrary Motion and Music in Similar Motion, both also composed in 1969, extend the procedures first to three voices (Contrary Motion) and then to four (Similar Motion), gradually thickening the textures and so enriching the harmonic palette.

The faces, the brush, & the razor, being then reversed, a contrary motion of the Wheel does the left cheek.

For some things cause motion in only one way, while others can produce either of two contrary motions: thus fire causes heating but not cooling, whereas it would seem that knowledge may be directed to two contrary ends while remaining one and the same.

Plato describes the soul as composed of two circles with contrary motions, which imitate the contrary motions of the fixed stars and the planets, so that the soul becomes a sort of orrery in the head (Timaeus 44d).

Mr. Hurt played contrary-motion phrases between left-hand chords and right-hand notes, and there was a hard, percussive bounce in his playing.

Its seven sections proceed with fixed conditions: modes, uniform tempo and dynamics, contrary-motion patterns of harmony that become familiar very fast, ensemble chords that last for three or four beats.

"Parallel" organum was followed, in turn, by "free" organum, which allowed the synchronized voice parts to utilize contrary melodic motion.