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.
Again, there's the contrary motion – the cold, passive corpses loaded onto the "low lorry", the warm-blooded children stirring, then sitting up.
It was really hard to appraise "Hallucination City," with so much of the gnashing, contrary motion within it erased from hearing.
The book, a bit generic in its X-ray of Me Generation coupling in the 21st century but nonetheless moving, runs in contrary motion, with the two leads making their ways to the opposite ends of their five-year relationship.
Yesterday's contrary motion of the Dow and the Nasdaq continued a trend that began last week, though there had been no recent day with such stark contrasts as yesterday.
It is now generally believed that English descant originally involved singing in two parts with an upper voice extemporaneously added to a plainchant, frequently in contrary motion, as opposed to the parallel motion typical of fauxbourdon.
He's clearly spent some of the interim thinking more about harmony and structure than hooks: these songs, passive-aggressive as they may be, contain strong major-to-minor movements, irregular shapes, contrary motion between voice and guitars.
