counterpoint
suomi-englanti sanakirjacounterpoint englannista suomeksi
erota jyrkästi
säveltää kontrapunkti
kontrapunkti
counterpoint englanniksi
A melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.
{{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Roger T. Dean|title=The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music
Any similar contrasting element in a of art.
{{quote-text|en|year=2014|author=Nancy M. Marion; Willard M. Oliver|title=Drugs In American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and the Law|page=188
An opposite point.
1605, Sir (w), ''Europae Speculum'' ''A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe'', in Mary Ellen Henley, ''Sir Edwin Sandy's ''Europae Speculum:'' a Critical Edition'' (2001)
- (..) Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.
To serve as an opposing point against.
{{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Paul-François Tremlett|title=Religion and the Discourse on Modernity
(obsolete form of)