counterpoint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.

   “I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.”

2. isim Any similar contrasting element in a work of art.

   “As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Chistie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic looks such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.”

3. isim An opposite point.

   “[…] Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.”

4. fiil To compose or arrange such music.
5. fiil To serve as an opposing point against.
6. isim Obsolete form of counterpane.