Word: counterpoints
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...though this endless point-counterpoint does not always serve to clarify the "correct" solution, it does make abundantly clear that, if the subject is of any importance, it has certainly not received open discussion commensurate with its complexity or with its implications...
Randall Thompson has chosen the last course, bringing a modern harmonic vocabulary to the forms and even the styles of the classical composers. His most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint is at times almost indistinguishable from late baroque, especially in his formal fugues, and he avoids the unusual intervals of contemporary music in favor of more traditional linear movement...
...Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet, also has time to bewitch Thomas Mendip, the world-weary stranger, (by this time a self-styled Satan) and these two loves develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother chatters and the Chaplain wanders about with a violin (his "better half") and casts forth wisdom to unlistening ears. Since all this is done with remarkable finesse the result is laughter...
...Annie Ross, cast in the role of "brass," opened with the line "Dig Count Basie blow Joe's blues away," was seconded by the "reeds" (Hendricks, Arranger Dave Lambert) with the line "Blow Joe's blues away." After that the two sections sang together in a bouncing counterpoint, with the "brass" falling back and punctuating the "reed" line with repeated "yeahs!" Farther along, Singers Lambert and Ross took over the role of "trombones," while Hendricks as a solo "reed" came in on every third line. In the finale, the three bundled their heads at the microphone...
...paint in the midst of war the most joyful canvases of his career. The school-of-Paris cubism he brought back with him helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink Sky is like the gates of hell, is a sparkling example...