Contrapuntal is valid Scrabble Word

Is contrapuntal a scrabble word?
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12 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTRAPUNTAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

pertaining to counterpoint
of or in counterpoint.
Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.
relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint
having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

polyphonic

Words related to CONTRAPUNTAL

contrapuntally21

Words that contain CONTRAPUNTAL

contrapuntally21 contrapuntalist19

How to use CONTRAPUNTAL in a sentence

So great was the scandal throughout the whole world of church music that contrapuntal music came near being abandoned entirely.
The Contrapuntal harmonic technique of the eighteenth century.
Sight-singing in three parts should always begin with exercises written in the contrapuntal style.
From the magnificent fugue in the overture to the majestic choral finale, the music is an astonishing combination of divinely beautiful melody with marvels of contrapuntal skill.
The effect of the music was that of a contrapuntal nightmare, hideous to a degree which one who has not heard it cannot conceive.
After the exposition the fugue consists of a kind of free contrapuntal fantasy on the subject and its answer.
It was one of the first signs of the breaking away from the conventional trammels of the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The themes are not good of their sort, the sort being, as he said, the sort that are useful for contrapuntal working.
So he showed himself neither a great poet-composer nor a contrapuntal adept.
Its rhythm and accents are arranged not by the needs of contrapuntal development, but by the meter of the line and the accent of the Italian tongue.

In it the frottola, raised to an art form and equipped with the wealth of contrapuntal device, passed almost insensibly into a new life.
Their revolt against the contrapuntal lyric drama was largely, though not wholly, based on deep-seated objection to the unintelligibility of the text.
He endeavored to compose in a pleasing style by hiding all contrapuntal effects as much as possible.
One is ever conscious in Reger that he is solving contrapuntal problems in order to astonish the vulgar herd of the professors.
Both vocal and instrumental music have been written in contrapuntal style.
Song is ever supreme, and with all abundance of contrapuntal art does not become sophisticated.
We know now that the stiff contrapuntal school marked a stage in development of music which it was necessary that music should go through.

Similar words containing NTRAPUNT without suffix al and without prefix co

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