contrapuntally
Adverb
Meaning
contrapuntally (comparative more contrapuntally, superlative most contrapuntally)
In a contrapuntal manner
Examples
Carter 1991, 128. The word Mannerism has also been used to describe the style of highly florid and contrapuntally complex polyphonic music made in France in the late 14th century.
Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
The horn choir is especially practical because the extended range of the horn provides the composer or arranger with more possibilities, registerally, sonically, and contrapuntally.
In each era, contrapuntally organized music writing has been subject to rules—sometimes strict ones.