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Meaning of "contrapuntally" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONTRAPUNTALLY

contrapuntally  [ˌkɒntrəˈpʌnt əlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONTRAPUNTALLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Contrapuntally is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES CONTRAPUNTALLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

contrapuntally

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are interdependent harmonically and yet are independent in rhythm and contour. It has been most commonly identified in classical music, strongly developing during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period, especially in Baroque music. The term originates from the Latin punctus contra punctum meaning "point against point".

Definition of contrapuntally in the English dictionary

The definition of contrapuntally in the dictionary is by means of counterpoint.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONTRAPUNTALLY


accidentally
ˌæksɪˈdɛnt əlɪ
chemically
ˈkɛmɪk əlɪ
coitally
ˈkəʊɪt əlɪ
compartmentally
ˌkɒmpɑːtˈmɛnt əlɪ
congenitally
kənˈdʒɛnɪt əlɪ
consonantally
ˌkɒnsəˈnænt əlɪ
continentally
ˌkɒntɪˈnɛnt əlɪ
covenantally
ˌkʌvəˈnænt əlɪ
departmentally
ˌdiːpɑːtˈmɛnt əlɪ
detrimentally
ˌdɛtrɪˈmɛnt əlɪ
dramatically
drəˈmætɪk əlɪ
edictally
ˈiːdɪkt əlɪ
emotionally
ɪˈməʊʃən əlɪ
exceptionally
ɪkˈsɛpʃən əlɪ
experimentally
ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt əlɪ
exponentially
ˌɛkspəˈnɛnʃ əlɪ
externally
ɪkˈstɜːn əlɪ
financially
fɪˈnænʃ əlɪ
formally
ˈfɔːm əlɪ
fragmentally
fræɡˈmɛnt əlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONTRAPUNTALLY

contraoctave
contraplex
contraposition
contrapositive
contrapposto
contraprop
contrapropeller
contraption
contrapuntal
contrapuntalist
contrapuntist
contrarian
contraries
contrarieties
contrariety
contrarily
contrariness
contrarious
contrariously
contrariousness

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONTRAPUNTALLY

actually
anecdotally
brutally
coincidentally
dentally
developmentally
digitally
environmentally
fatally
fundamentally
horizontally
incidentally
incrementally
instrumentally
mentally
pivotally
prenatally
rectally
tally
totally
vitally

Synonyms and antonyms of contrapuntally in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «contrapuntally» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONTRAPUNTALLY

Find out the translation of contrapuntally to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of contrapuntally from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «contrapuntally» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

contrapuntally
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contrapuntally
570 millions of speakers

English

contrapuntally
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

contrapuntally
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

contrapuntally
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

контрапунктически
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contrapontisticamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

contrapuntally
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

en contrepoint
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Contrapuntally
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kontrapunk
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

contrapuntally
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

contrapuntally
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Contrapuntally
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

contrapuntally
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

contrapuntally
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Contrapuntally
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

contrapuntally
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contrappuntisticamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

contrapuntally
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

контрапунктически
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contrapuntally
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιστικτικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kontrapuntaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kontrapunkt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kontrapunk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of contrapuntally

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTRAPUNTALLY»

The term «contrapuntally» is used very little and occupies the 173.648 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTRAPUNTALLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «contrapuntally» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «contrapuntally» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about contrapuntally

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTRAPUNTALLY»

Discover the use of contrapuntally in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to contrapuntally and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the ...
Monists acknowledge that tonal harmonies appear to obey harmonic rules, but assert that these regularities can be explained contrapuntally. The traditional theorist is therefore wrong to find a harmonic grammar in Mozart's music; the deeper ...
Dmitri Tymoczko, 2011
2
A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory ...
the musical sphere and speak of the perception and effect tones of the various animal subjects, which belong to each other contrapuntally. Only then can one arrive at a score of Nature. In Nature, the perception tones of different animals can ...
Jakob von Uexküll, Marina von Uexküll, Joseph D. O’Neil
3
Beginning Postcolonialism
For example, in order to read Mansfield Park contrapuntally we must recognise that the dominant world-view offered by the novel is grounded in various presumptions. The novel bears witness to the existence of the slave plantations in Antigua ...
John McLeod, 2000
4
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
CONTRAPUNTALLY;. TWO. CAPTIVITY. NARRATIVES. What story ensues when we read side by side two seemingly disparate seventeenthcentury texts that just happen to situate sexualitybetween menatthejuncturewhere mythsof East and ...
Joseph A. Boone, 2013
5
Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music
Their effective movement in parallel unison is contrapuntally permissible, since these two parts are not ordinarily in counterpoint with each other, but rather each is in counterpoint with the tenor, but the disparity in their surface figuration hints ...
Michael Tenzer, John Roeder, 2011
6
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of ...
Contrapuntally. Drawing metaphorically onthe polyphony ofWestern classical music, Edward Said's (1994) notion of contrapuntal reading is an important step increating a terrain for alternative anticolonial possibilities to emerge.Ashenotes: As ...
Lisa K. Taylor, Jasmin Zine, 2014
7
Unification and Varietas in the Sine Nomine Mass from Dufay ...
As the earliest type of Mass cycle, the sine nomine Mass played a crucial role in the history of the cyclic Mass.
Alexis Fleur Luko, 2007
8
Wagner's the Ring of the Nibelung: Opera Classics Library Series
The essential ideal of the leitmotif technique was to j oin the themes contrapuntally, and in Wagner 's particular case, present them with symphonic grandeur. Nineteenth century Romantic composers, such as Wagner, Liszt, Mendelsohn, and ...
Burton D. Fisher, 2005
9
A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses
The essential ideal of the leitmotif technique was to join the themes contrapuntally, and in Wagner's particular case, present them with symphonic grandeur. Nineteenth-century Romantic period composers, such as Wagner, Liszt, Mendelssohn ...
Burton D. Fisher, 2005
10
Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in Differences
My problem is contrapuntally profound music, which is quite another thing. My problem is, as I have said so many times before, the adjectival sense of "profound ": the sense not in which the Critique of Pure Reason is profoundly philosophical  ...
Peter Kivy, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTRAPUNTALLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term contrapuntally is used in the context of the following news items.
1
StageStruck: Ghost Stories part 2 – Three Henries
The Chorus here is a real chorus – five actors speaking contrapuntally, a nice change-up, but their delivery is as ponderous as a sermon. «Valley Advocate, Jul 15»
2
Do You Have What it Takes to Become an E-Sports Pro?
The right hand, meanwhile, darts and clicks with a mouse, contrapuntally, so frantic that carpal-tunnel syndrome and tendinitis are common ... «The Cheat Sheet, Jul 15»
3
Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better
... through a ceiling fan, to the strange arrangements of stairs and rooms in the guest house—makes for a contrapuntally layered visual texture. «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
4
Te Deum Antiqua delivers 'V Cantores' in St. Paul's Episcopal Church
The monody was less forgiving of "chirps" (someone adding a note) than the contrapuntally woven textures in the part music. The hour or so of ... «Examiner.com, May 15»
5
Two documentaries: '1971' on PBS, 'Southern Rites' from HBO
Simultaneously, contrapuntally, the film follows the campaign of Calvin Burns, the country's first African American police chief, to become its first ... «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
6
Classical music: Enterprising chamber music mix opens DSO's …
Stravinsky's 1923 Octet alternates and mixes winds and brass in music sometimes toe-tappingly fun, elsewhere more contrapuntally cerebral. «Dallas Morning News, May 15»
7
H&H Creation a Revelation
... of the older composer's mantle, were profoundly moving, as were the similarly scored and similarly contrapuntally constructed endings to Part ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, May 15»
8
French organist Olivier Latry delivers an excellent program
... combined with itself contrapuntally, and paraphrased amid tangles of whirring notes and dissonant harmonies. The tune's repeated Alleluias, ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
9
Citizen Kane and the meaning of Rosebud
Welles orchestrates these sounds contrapuntally with the couple's quarrel, they climax with a strange sound of screaming, as if Kane and ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
10
What is an African curriculum?
... the Palestinian theorist Edward Said suggested that the way to most productively read, analyse or interpret a text is to do so contrapuntally. «Mail & Guardian Online, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Contrapuntally [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/contrapuntally>. May 2024 ».
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