contrapuntally

In each era, contrapuntally organized music writing has been subject to rules, sometimes strict.

The melodies of the two hands sometimes move in parallel motion, but often play contrapuntally.

"In Counterpoint" had dancers move contrapuntally like a troupe of automatons.

The subject is therefore superimposed upon itself contrapuntally.

Here, Rachmaninoff manipulates the theme contrapuntally to develop a canonic effect.

All of the above works, particularly the Sonatas, are contrapuntally complex, dramatically shaped and technically challenging.

Then comes a contrapuntally complex, overly busy excursion.

Indeed, despite all the dramatic gestures, not a lot happens - melodically, rhythmically or contrapuntally.

Contrapuntally, Shaw presents archetypal characters who romanticize virtually every aspect of their lives.

The closing movement, the Offertory, is the most contrapuntally complex, and may have been intended as the climax of the entire composition.

These two melodies eventually are combined contrapuntally.

Old memories played out contrapuntally.

Busoni's music is typically contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwinding at once.

Dark, angular wintry themes are swept away with increasing vigor by colorful, contrapuntally dense scoring.

In this performance the highly charged, contrapuntally dense Sonata No. 2, from 1946, three movements played without pause, is riveting.

Chopin, far from being a sentimentalist, creates intricate webs of emotional sensation, his lines contrapuntally spun into space.

Set contrapuntally, the two stories seem too simple, and too cruelly fatalistic, the plot line of uninspired fiction.

The accompanying lentil salad - a tangy, bumpy cushion - contrapuntally accentuates the paradox.

The fugue, which ends the work, has an eight-bar subject which finally joins contrapuntally with the original theme of the piece.

Buxtehude's employment of contrast was between the free, often improvisatory sections, and more strict sections worked out contrapuntally.

Overall the motets are complex contrapuntally, with the individual lines having a distinctive character, in the manner of Ockeghem.

Clodine, the willful, passionate heroine, is played off contrapuntally against her placid, conventional sister, Jewel.

This theme is used contrapuntally in other parts of the Musical Offering, but here it is the supporting voices which create polyphony.

And on four, "Gloria" floated contrapuntally into the cathedral-like atmosphere and the 18th century was reborn.

One weird, slow, contrapuntally arranged number sounded like an Ellington ballad played in retrograde; it was ugly but fascinating.