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contrapuntist

[ kon-truh-puhn-tist ]

noun

  1. a person skilled in the practice of counterpoint.


contrapuntist

/ ˌɒԳٰəˈʌԳɪ /

noun

  1. music a composer skilled in counterpoint
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of contrapuntist1

From the Italian word contrappuntista, dating back to 1770–80. See counterpoint, -ist
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Both masses included here, however, belie Ockeghem’s reputation as a forbidding contrapuntist.

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His training as a composer was finished under the contrapuntist Dehn, with whom Glinka stayed for several months at Berlin.

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In his oratorio The Death of Jesus Graun shows his skill as a contrapuntist, and his originality of melodious invention.

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Perhaps not in your pedant's style, O great contrapuntist!

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However it be, Bach and the contrapuntists, by their treatment in an independent manner of the different voices constituting harmony, have opened a new path.

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