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contrary motion
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contrary motion

In music, the movement of two voices in opposite directions from each other; the opposite of parallel motion. The strictest form of contrary motion is inversion, in which one voice plays the mirror image of the other. For example, two voices which sing simultaneously: C4-G4-F4 and C4-F3-G3.



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