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See media help. In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. [ 1 ]
Contrapposto. A marble copy of Polykleitos ' Doryphoros, an early example of classical contrapposto. Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapĖposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off ...
Cambiata. Cambiata, or nota cambiata (Italian for changed note), has a number of different and related meanings in music. Generally it refers to a pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting of a melody where a note is skipped from (typically by an interval of a third) in one direction (either going up or down in ...
Contrappunto dialettico alla mente was commissioned by the Prix Italia, a composition contest held annually by the RAI, in February 1968. For this occasion, they asked for an opera that would not be performed on a stage, but would rather be broadcast on radio. The realization was carried out by the Studio di fonologia della RAI between May and ...
Kontra-Punkte (Counter-Points, or Against-Points) is a composition for ten instruments by Karlheinz Stockhausen which resolves contrasts among six instrumental timbres, as well as extremes of note values and dynamic levels, into a homogeneous ending texture. Stockhausen described it: "Counter-Points: a series of the most concealed and also the ...
Contrapasso. In Dante 's Inferno, contrapasso (or, in modern Italian, [1] contrappasso, from Latin contra and patior, meaning "suffer the opposite") is the punishment of souls "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself." [2] A similar process occurs in the Purgatorio. [2]
ISBN. 9781788732727. Website. Verso website. The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond is a 2019 nonfiction book by American author Nancy Fraser, published by Verso Books. The book casts the contemporary political landscape as not just an economic system, but economics wedded to authority ...
Just over a year after his retirement (in late January 1984), El Santo was a guest on Contrapunto, a Mexican television program and, without warning, removed his mask just enough to expose his face, in effect bidding his fans goodbye. [3] It is the only documented case of Santo removing his mask in public. [2]