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What does contrapuntal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word contrapuntal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or in counterpoint.
  2. (music) Of or relating to counterpoint.
  3. (music) With two or more independent melodic lines.
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This symphony is, if anything, contrapuntal, and the first movement a stunning exemplar.
A lot of composers who aren't intimately familiar with the piano feel that the instrument is intrinsically contrapuntal.
These seem to be simultaneous streams of attention, like two or three interacting contrapuntal voices in a Bach fugue.
One finds this mirrored in the antiphonies between orchestral groups in a huge, highly contrapuntal gigue.
The shape of Taormina is a geometry of interlocking and contrapuntal curves and concavities with various centres and focal points.
Generally, they are more lyrical and less contrapuntal than their German counterparts.

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