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. |