contrapunctus
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.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | contrāpūnctus | contrāpūnctūs |
| genitive | contrāpūnctūs | contrāpūnctuum |
| dative | contrāpūnctuī | contrāpūnctibus |
| accusative | contrāpūnctum | contrāpūnctūs |
| ablative | contrāpūnctū | contrāpūnctibus |
| vocative | contrāpūnctus | contrāpūnctūs |