His counterpoint is pertinent, skillful, and rarely thick.

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

It is mainly homophonic — melody above chordal accompaniment ( but counterpoint is by no means forgotten, especially later in the period ).

The Indian classical music tradition provides the accompaniment for the dance, and as percussion is such an integral part of the tradition, the dancers of nearly all the styles wear bells around their ankles to counterpoint and complement the percussion.

Since the 17th century, the term fugue has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint.

The habitus can be seen as counterpoint to the notions of rationality that is prevalent within other disciplines of social science research.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

A technique used to avoid bias is the " point / counterpoint " or " round table ", an adversarial format in which representatives of opposing views comment on an issue.

Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.

His gift for improvised counterpoint is perhaps most notable on the two albums he recorded with Mulligan (" Mulligan-Desmond Quartet " and " Two of a Mind ").

" This quote illustrates Orwell ’ s understanding of how the past can influence both ideology and politics, offers a counterpoint as to why protecting the scholarly practice of history is important, and describes the extreme effects of state-sponsored censorship.

A counterpoint to the above is that while these considerations harmonize belief in God with our inability to identify his reasons for permitting evil, there remains a question as to why we have not been given a clear and unambiguous assurance by God that he has good reasons for allowing evil, which would be within our ability to understand.

Cocoa powder is sifted on top ( and sometimes between layers ) as both a garnish and a bitter counterpoint to the sweetened cheese mixture.

Though I admire the structured thought of theology ( Anselm's proof in the Fides Quaerens Intellectum, for instance ) it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

In Aldous Huxley's Island, in many ways a counterpoint to his better-known Brave New World, the fusion of the best parts of Buddhist philosophy and Western technology is threatened by the " invasion " of oil companies.

Another clear reference to the baroque is the often complex and virtuosic counterpoint that sometimes follows strict fugal behavior but more often simply allows each performer in the group to assert his voice.

Byrd's setting is on a massive scale, requiring five-part Decani and Cantoris groupings in antiphony, block homophony and five, six and eight-part counterpoint with verse ( solo ) sections for added variety.

An example of this is the chapter titled " Contracrostipunctus ", which combines the words acrostic and contrapunctus ( counterpoint ).

He may have studied counterpoint under Ockeghem, whom he greatly admired throughout his life: this is suggested both by the testimony of Gioseffo Zarlino and Lodovico Zacconi, writing later in the 16th century, and by Josquin's eloquent lament on the death of Ockeghem in 1497, Nymphes des bois / Requiem aeternam, based on the poem by Jean Molinet.

* With Emerson, Lake & Powell, the main theme to " Touch & Go " is identical to the English folk song " Lovely Joan ", better known as the counterpoint tune in Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves Not credited.

Rational Recovery and Rational Recovery Systems, Inc. is a commercial vendor of material related to counseling, guidance, and direct instruction for addiction designed as a direct counterpoint to Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) and twelve-step programs.

The counterpoint in the modern era is when Valentine explains to Hannah the significance of Thomasina's rediscovered notebook with detail that reflects Stoppard's careful research in the scientific basis of his play.

Caterpillar Gustav is the counterpoint to Slimey.

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.

Harmony, melody, counterpoint symphonic structure are there ; ;

Played in an ensemble / orchestra, such notes are frequently used to provide a counterpoint or counter-melody, in a harmonic context either to outline or juxtapose the progression of the chords, or with percussion to underline the rhythm.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the art of counterpoint ; the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. 1 or the same composer's Cantata No. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.

Consequently, voice-overs are sometimes used to create ironic counterpoint.

His instrumental works are therefore imbued with a similar vocally conceived melodic line, granted they may be lacking in the sophisticated counterpoint and motivic work of Haydn and Mozart's music.

The vast majority are shorter, with the discursive imitative paragraphs of the earlier motets giving place to double phrases in which the counterpoint, though intricate and concentrated, assumes a secondary level of importance.

The Marian hymns from the 1605 Gradualia are set in a light line-by-line imitative counterpoint with crotchet pulse which recalls the three-part English songs from Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ).

Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.

The principal elements of Honegger's style are: Bachian counterpoint, driving rhythms, melodic amplitude, highly coloristic harmonies, an impressionistic use of orchestral sonorities, and a concern for formal architecture.

How trite, feeble and conventional the tunes are ; how sentimental and vapid the harmonic treatment, under its disguise of fussy and futile counterpoint!

His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said, "... f, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.

The thousands of abandoned or obliterated farmsteads and other evidence of rural depopulation in North Dakota, including many now-vacant and deteriorated homesteads which were thriving family farms into the 1970s, are a counterpoint to romantic notions of " family farming " in the 21st century.

" This melody is employed as a countermelody to the " Frère Jacques " theme in the minor mode, but the counterpoint that Mahler uses is unconventional, and the two melodies are never properly consolidated.

Specifically, John Locke as part of his argument against the " Divine Right of Kings " in his book Two Treatises of Government defines it this way: “ Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to ; and this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage .” Locke's concept of tyranny influenced the writers of subsequent generations who developed the concept of tyranny as counterpoint to ideas of human rights and democracy.

In counterpoint to the Carringtons are the Blaisdels ; Denver-Carrington geologist Matthew ( Bo Hopkins ) unhappily married to the emotionally fragile Claudia ( Pamela Bellwood ) is Krystle's ex-lover.

Polyphony and counterpoint are common components, as is a varied rhythmic structure.

His La Cetra concertos are " unusual for their wind solo parts, concision and use of counterpoint within a broadly Vivaldian style ," according to Grove, " placing them as a last outpost of the classic Venetian Baroque concerto.

Crawford ’ s reputation as a composer chiefly rests on her New York compositions written between 1930 and 1933, which are concerned with dissonant counterpoint and American serial techniques.

His melodic writing and use of dissonance is more free than that of Palestrina ; occasionally he uses intervals which are prohibited in the strict application of 16th century counterpoint, such as ascending major sixths, or even occasional diminished fourths ( for example, a melodic diminished fourth occurs in a passage representing grief in his motet Sancta Maria, succurre ).

In addition to the familiar themes, director Szwarc says Williams also composed a " youthful counterpoint to the shark that is always around when the kids are sailing or going out to sea.

While he was a moderately prolific composer, and his motets are polished and display a mastery of canonic counterpoint, his principal claim to fame was his work as a theorist.

These motions are generally avoided in traditional counterpoint because they offer the lines so little independence from each other.

Sketches for the finale are found among the exercises Beethoven wrote while studying counterpoint under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in the spring of 1787.