Definition of "contrapuntal" []

• Music Of, relating to, or incorporating counterpoint. (adjective)

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• "Music written entirely by the rules of counterpoint is called contrapuntal music; that written otherwise is known as free harmonic music."
• "It will pass to the subsequent _Figures of Earth_ and, after showing how the greater gravity of this volume is accompanied by a greater profusion of poetry _per se_ it will unravel the scheme of Cabell's fifteen essays in what might be called contrapuntal prose."
• "Even if I have different objects interwoven or crosscutting one another or in a certain kind of contrapuntal configuration, the clarity is really important to me."