contrapuntists

Leopold, and solved, 'as easily as if he were eating a bit of bread,' the difficult problems proposed by the Court music-director, who was regarded as one of the best contrapuntists of the day.

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

Even on the Continent, the great schools of contrapuntists delighted to show their skill by employing as their cantus firmus, or chief part, some well-known popular song, such as "L'Homme Armé," for example.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

A fourth group reduces the thing to an exact science, and sets up standards that resemble algebraic formulæ - this is the group of metrists, of contrapuntists and of those who gabble of light-waves.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

So Don Perosi, in his compositions, welds together the Gregorian chant, the musical style of the contrapuntists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,

Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

Membership in the papal choir became the great desideratum of singers, contrapuntists, and composers of every land, which accounts for the presence in Rome, at = 20least for a time, of most of the great names of that period.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Gregorian melodies, however, even in the hands of the contrapuntists, retained their character in a wonderful manner.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

So Don Perosi, in his compositions, welds together the Gregorian chant, the musical style of the contrapuntists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Palestrina, Roland, Gabrieli,

Musicians of To-Day Romain Rolland 1905

Besides, these old contrapuntists were trained from youth to keep two or more tunes going at once.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

He showed a good acquaintance with the contrapuntists of the last century, and knew several of my own works.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

What to them was an end -- I mean all the tricks of counterpoint -- was to him a means to expression: more expressive music was never dreamed of in a musician's imagination, and at the same time he accomplished with ease part-writing that the most skilful contrapuntists could only perform by labouring long at expressionless, stale old themes first contrived before the Flood to "work well," as the phrase goes.

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891