Sentence examples for use of counterpoint from inspiring English sources

"The use of counterpoint.

"That's one of the main things this movie taught me, the use of counterpoint.

Agazzari gave practical instructions for the use of counterpoint in the improvising of melody parts upon the thoroughbass.

In their use of counterpoint and Classical forms, Vierne's symphonies reflect his study with Charles-Marie Widor, whom he served as an assistant at the Church of St.-Sulpice St.-Sulpiced the Parin Conservatory.

Beethoven's enthusiasm for the work of George Frideric Handel began to bear fruit in a much more-thoroughgoing use of counterpoint, especially notable in his frequent recourse to fugue and fugal passages.

Spem in alium nunquam habui, ( Latin: "Hope in Any Other Have I None" or "In No Other Is My Hope") motet (short musical setting of a sacred text) by English composer Thomas Tallis, noted for its complex use of counterpoint in a composition for 40 voices.

Even many of the choral numbers, with their use of dissonant counterpoint and lonely solo lines, convey somber, barbed introspection.

He is distinguished from his English contemporaries by his more frequent use of imitative counterpoint and the freedom with which he varies the number of voices employed during the course of a single composition.

One is Mr. Hartke's use of imitative counterpoint: phrases that spill out, one over the other, and refer to a style more common to Perotin's great-grandchildren.

Many of his works have "deft use of imitative counterpoint" and impressionistic harmony.

But there is wit in Krenek's use of overly industrious counterpoint, intentionally lugubrious lyricism and other touches.