- (familiar in folk traditions), the canon, and
perhaps the most
complex contrapuntal convention: the fugue. All of
these are
examples of
imitative counterpoint...
- In
music theory,
contrapuntal motion is the
general movement of two
melodic lines with
respect to each other. In
traditional four-part harmony, it is important...
-
Contrapuntal Forms (BH 165) is a
stone sculpture by
Barbara Hepworth, one of her
first public commissions, made in 1950–51 for the
Festival of Britain...
- top-to-bottom
elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a
group of
contrapuntal lines of music. In each of
these cases, "inversion" has a
distinct but...
- 01273 13.
Musical Offering, Art of the
Fugue (see also: List of late
contrapuntal works by
Johann Sebastian Bach) Up ↑ 1079 13. 1747-07-07
Musical Offering...
- In
classical music, a
fugue (/fjuːɡ/) is a
contrapuntal,
polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices,
built on a
subject (a
musical theme)...
- Progressively, and in
large part at the
hands of
Mozart himself, the
contrapuntal complexities of the late
Baroque emerged once more,
moderated and disciplined...
- as
chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his
works employ contrapuntal techniques like
canon and fugue.
Throughout the 18th century, Bach was...
- (1685–1750): 15 inventions,
which are two-part
contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias,
which are three-part
contrapuntal pieces. They were
originally written as...
- 862, from Das
Wohltemperierte Clavier (Part I), a
famous example of
contrapuntal polyphony.
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