contrapunctus
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]contrapunctus (plural contrapuncti)
- (music) A fugue.
- 2018, Guerino Mazzola, The Topos of Music II: Performance: Theory, Software, and Case Studies:
- The ambitus of the metrical weight profile increases towards the middle of the contrapunctus; minimal local meter length is 2.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin contra + punctus, from the Medieval Latin expression "punctus contra punctum" ("note against note").
Noun
[edit]contrāpūnctus m (genitive contrāpūnctūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | contrāpūnctus | contrāpūnctūs |
Genitive | contrāpūnctūs | contrāpūnctuum |
Dative | contrāpūnctuī | contrāpūnctibus |
Accusative | contrāpūnctum | contrāpūnctūs |
Ablative | contrāpūnctū | contrāpūnctibus |
Vocative | contrāpūnctus | contrāpūnctūs |