contrapuntist

English

Etymology

Italian contrappuntista.

Noun

contrapuntist (plural contrapuntists)

  1. (music) One skilled in counterpoint.
    • a. 1797, William Mason, Essays on Church Music:
      Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence

References

“contrapuntist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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