(n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
(n.) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
(n.) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
(n.) A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corporation said it counterpointed the KKK spokesman's comments with a US academic critical of the organisation.
(2) Nokia's share was lower than HTC's, according to Counterpoint, suggesting that it sold fewer than 400,000 phones in the US during September.
(3) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
(4) The harmonious counterpoint of this septet of currents explains most of the electrical excitability properties of these cells.
(5) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(6) "The counterpoint to the ongoing wars of aggression and the drumbeat heralding a 'clash of civilisations' is the desire of ordinary people in the west and in the Arab world to engage with each other," the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif said at the time.
(7) Ilves was dressed in his trademark tweeds and bow tie, a counterpoint to his mission to make Estonia the most digitally progressive country in Europe .
(8) Paul Ryan’s policies are so vague that he must bolster them by nightmarish counterpoint.
(9) He adds that they sometimes get letters from children enamoured with his "hard-right stance", so they introduced a democratic movement as a counterpoint.
(10) I was doing an interview for one of those pop keyboard magazines, and the guy said to me ‘What do you think of The Orb?’ And I said ‘What’s The Orb?’ And he said ‘You don’t know?’ And I said ‘No I don’t know,’ and he said ‘You should know,’ and he handed me the CD and I took it home there was Electric Counterpoint.
(11) That’s a skill.” Jakielka said Hodgson’s approach was a refreshing counterpoint to the authoritarian Capello but conceded England would have to deliver in France to keep him in his job.
(12) Rubio himself referred to two such examples – China and Vietnam – in a Wednesday op-ed in the New York Times , but to make a counterpoint: that despite the opening up of economic pathways, both China and Vietnam remain notorious violators of basic human rights.
(13) In his vast orchestral canvas St Thomas Wake (1968) his target is the foxtrot, which appears grotesquely parodied alongside plainchant and counterpoint, ordered with the help of “magic squares” (assemblages of numbers whose rows and columns and long diagonals yield the same total).
(14) For Rubin, the Benghazi attack offers the perfect counterpoint to Chris Christie’s Bridgegate ; an opening born of human tragedy.
(15) Without getting the counterpoint, I was drawn more and more to the conservative side.
(16) For the quarter, Counterpoint's data suggests that Nokia sold fewer than 1.5m phones in the US.
(17) The marriage between the parents is just one union serving as a counterpoint to the love match that all the daughters so ardently, subversively desire.
(18) Curriculum vitae Age 59 Education Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (history); University College, Oxford (PPE) Career 1970 writer, Rolling Stone magazine 1973 presenter, Radio 1 1974 presenter, Radio 4 arts show Kaleidoscope 1983 founder member, TV-am 1992 launch team, Classic FM 1995 Radio 3 1996 Radio Academy's Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio award 1998 presenter, Classic FM 2005 inducted into Radio Academy Hall of Fame 2008 host, Counterpoint music quiz, Radio 4
(19) Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a “risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been.” 11.33am BST Aid donations My colleague Mark Tran, the Guardian's Global Development correspondent, has sent this as a counterpoint to the detractors: Something positive to say about the EU.
(20) The chancellor, George Osborne, coined the phrase two years ago, saying he wanted to join together the cities of the north as a counterpoint to the dominance of London and south-east England.
Fugue
Definition:
(n.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(2) This finding was incompatible with our case having a neurologically based global memory disorder during the fugue state.
(3) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
(4) The literature on hysterical fugues and corticosteroid-induced mental disturbance is reviewed.
(5) In a group of 39 consecutive patients attending neurological clinics with transient amnesia patients with transient global amnesia formed the largest group; others suffered from epilepsy, migraine, temporal lobe encephalitis, or psychogenic fugues.
(6) I've got Andras Schiff and Glenn Gould in the same playlist: why, of course, because both played all of Bach Preludes and Fugues, and the Goldberg Variations.
(7) The principles were illustrated and extended using Rorschach and Hand Test data from a fugue state.
(8) This report describes an acute organic brain syndrome with a fugue-like state in association with antimigraine pharmacotherapy.
(9) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
(10) Melissa now observed that our beautiful surroundings, you've all seen them on the telly (you could go and have a look, a security man downstairs said anyone can come, "it's surprising people don't bother") – the green, leather benches, the relentless oak panelling, the Hogwarts fugue all look the same as the halls and chambers of Oxford University.
(11) Of 19 adolescents with diagnosed psychogenic seizures, 13 had hysterical convulsions and 4 had amnesiac fugues.
(12) The case is unusual in that the amnesia lasted as long as six weeks without any pseudodementia or fugue.
(13) The only thing that could have happened is that, at some point during the night, I woke up in a fugue state and set the clock forward 21 hours, so I would miss her funeral… I must have set it forward 21 hours, because something in my subconscious said that was the only legitimate and expedient way to miss the funeral.” I ask him how he feels about that now, and his eyes mist up a tiny bit.
(14) 78% of them were sent to the maximum security settings from psychiatric centres: of whom 8% from other security settings and 70% from ordinary psychiatric centres [50% of whom because they had run away (fugues) and 50% of whom as a result of aggressive behaviour which was, in certain case, accompanied by threats of murder]...
(15) Those with multiple personality also differ from the other groups on DSM-III criteria for multiple personality, psychogenic amnesia, and psychogenic fugue.
(16) I always imagine Clarkson to be in a fugue state of midlife crisis: scrabbling forever in a heart-palpitating search for flashier cars to drive, younger women to hang out with, weaker people to bully, just because he doesn't want to admit that he's not only over 25, but over 50.
(17) Bacteria isolated from the skin of the pufferfish Fugu poecilonotus were screened for tetrodotoxin production.
(18) Glycolipids were purified from the total lipid extract of the testis or milt of a kind of puffer (Fugu rubripes rubripes) by adsorption column chromatography using silicic acid and magnesium silicate and by preparative silica gel TLC.
(19) The following disorders can be distinguished: --psychogenic amnesia: partial or complete loss of memory --psychogenic trance: temporary loss of habitual identity with more or less full awareness of surroundings --psychogenic fugue: apparently purposeful journey away from home with psychogenic amnesia --psychogenic stupor: profound diminuation or absence of voluntary movement and no responsiveness to external stimuli.
(20) It should be obvious that a steak is not like a symphony, a pie not like a passaglia, foie gras not like a fugue; that the "composition" of a menu is not like the composition of a requiem; that the cook heating things in the kitchen and arranging them on a plate is not the artistic equal of Charlie Parker.