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contrapuntist
[ kon-truh-puhn-tist ]
contrapuntist
/ ˌɒԳٰəˈʌԳɪ /
noun
- music a composer skilled in counterpoint
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yvlog History and Origins
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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