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counterpoint Noun 1. the harmonious combining of two or more parts or melodies 2. a melody or part combined in this way Verb to set in contrast [Old French contrepoint an accompaniment set against the notes of a melody]
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| And the Joffrey performed Deuce Coupe with total ease here, with the bravura Julianne Kepley as the leading freestyle girl and a pristine Heather Aagard ideal as a counterpointing figure, the little bunhead left out in the 1960s cold. Counterpointing her medium's viscosity to the rigidity of the wooden support, van Genderen never lets us forget the objecthood of her paintings. Lemke's treatment of "The Black Book" is also of interest, largely because of the fruitfulness of her counterpointing of the collections by Locke and Cunard. |
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