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contrapunctus

contrapunctus noun: a fugue.

Noun

contrapunctus (plural contrapuncti)

  1. A fugue.
    • The ambitus of the metrical weight profile increases towards the middle of the contrapunctus; minimal local meter length is 2.2018, Guerino Mazzola, The Topos of Music II: Performance: Theory, Software, and Case Studies

Forms of contrapunctus

pluralcontrapuncti

Questions about contrapunctus

What does contrapunctus mean?
Contrapunctus means a fugue.
What part of speech is contrapunctus?
Contrapunctus is a noun.
What is the plural of contrapunctus?
The plural of contrapunctus is contrapuncti.

Words near contrapunctus in the dictionary

  1. contraption
  2. contraptions
  3. contraptious
  4. contrapunctal
  5. contrapuncti
  6. contrapunctus
  7. contrapuntal
  8. contrapuntalism
  9. contrapuntally
  10. contrapuntism
  11. contrapuntist

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