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Adjective: contrapuntal  `kón-tru'pún-t(u)l
  1. Relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint
    "contrapuntal base"
     
  2. Having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
    - polyphonic

See also: counterpoint

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