Ligeti use of contrapuntal devices and tone colour proved a major influence.

He was a virtual catalogue of every contrapuntal device possible and every acceptable means of creating webs of harmony with the chorale.

Even his vocal music, which is more conservative than his keyboard writing, shows a striking rhythmic complexity and an unusual richness of contrapuntal devices.

The whole piece is characterized by the use of several different contrapuntal devices.

In the 1751 printed edition, the various movements are roughly arranged by increasing order of sophistication of the contrapuntal devices used.

The name refers to the medieval contrapuntal device known as hocket, in which two voices are staggered to create a sharply rhythmic echo effect.

The cantata opens with a choral fantasia "with contrapuntal devices of awe-inspiring complexity".

The contrapuntal devices of stretto, diminution and inversion are not employed in any of them.

Sullivan's best known contrapuntal device was "the simultaneous presentation of two or more distinct melodies previously heard independently".

The score will be color-coded to pick out the themes, and contrapuntal devices will be briefly keyed in words.