Meanings
nouncontrapunctus (plural contrapuncti)
plural contrapuncti
- entertainmentA 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
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