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contrapuntal

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contrapuntal
Music characterized by counterpoint


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Within the 'new' orchestral tone we discovered Bach's humour and joyous contrapuntal revelling.
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However, this structure, which weaves the story of a missing sibling through the protagonist's early adulthood and midlife period, also produces an odd contrapuntal effect at moments by placing the relatively mundane narration of life and love's labors alongside the horror of a family tragedy without fully calibrating one to the other.
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There is some technical and contrapuntal interest in these parts.
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