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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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Other exercises include scales in different rhythms, contrary motion, thirds and sixths, different dynamics, articulation and use of a metronome.
The mathematical equations describing the reaction dynamics are nearly the same ones describing such phenomena as propagating flame fronts inside an engine's piston, the complex and contrary motions of a heart teetering toward cardiac arrest and the ebbs and flows of animal populations, notes Arthur T.
Approximately three-fourths of the way into this book, the concept of "thumb under the third finger" is introduced, and students play hands together, mostly in parallel and contrary motion.
 
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