Sentence examples for melodic counterpoint from inspiring English sources

He often weighed functional bass lines against bolts of melodic counterpoint, or background arpeggios.

His music, then, reveals itself as noise rock microscopically constructed from layer upon layer of melodic counterpoint.

From there he merged with the ensemble, sometimes playing a melodic counterpoint, sometimes using a sharply percussive attack.

Michael Vitali's score includes rhythmic drumming for the dark forces and a haunting, melodic counterpoint for the maidens.

These works are akin to "the first practice," the melodic counterpoint of the Renaissance, although in their use of dissonance and harmony they go considerably beyond Renaissance convention.

He added a crisp melodic counterpoint to the group's gritty, percussive sound, including the outlaw country anthem "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

There's no evidence that Morrison and Lyman ever met, but their trajectories through the book operate like melodic counterpoints.

Fugue, in music, a compositional procedure characterized by the systematic imitation of a principal theme (called the subject) in simultaneously sounding melodic lines (counterpoint).

With this aggressive-sounding group he achieved rich sonorities of woodwinds, brasses, strings, and drums, in compositions with memorable themes and active melodic and rhythmic counterpoint.

This is not properly correct, since polyphony refers generally to music consisting of two or more distinct melodic lines while counterpoint refers to the compositional technique involved in the handling of these melodic lines.

Kelly's solos, following Coltrane's, have a ripplingly songful, easygoing but intriguingly varied lyricism; Chambers offers a firm melodic and percussive counterpoint, and Cobb displays a rhythmic foundation that's as foot-tappingly strong as it is polyrhythmically supple.