counterbalance, juxtaposition, accompaniment, refutation, coda, musical accompaniment, counterexample, backdrop, segue, contrasts, counterweight, riposte, bookend, interludes, songlike, vocalism, evocation, antidote, critique, explications, melodiousness, grist, spareness, backbeat, subtext, prelude, wryness, rhapsodies, arioso, obbligato, echoes, plaintiveness, dissonances, elegiac, reminder, cohering, fodder, apologia, metaphor, portamento, tremolos, recapitulation, rejoinder, pensiveness, commentary, narrative, summation, illustration, divertimento, archness, drollness, panegyric, hyperrealism, chromaticism, foreshadowing, duologue, tunefulness, undertones, sunniness, reminiscent, poeticism, ethereality, tonalities, postlude, glissando, elegy, limns, agitprop, narration, leitmotif, allegory, disquisition, ode, paean, cantabile, overtones, jeremiad, poetics, declamation, concision, kyrie eleison, quippy, sidelight, allegretto, bombast, pastiche, crescendos, redolent, staccatos, aestheticism, backcloth, woodwinds, attitudinizing, undercurrent, larghetto, chaconne, narrator, toccata, pas de deux, con brio, leavens, nocturnes, polyphony, fugue, interplay, choreography, contrast, antithesis, syncopation, alliteration, analogy, chiaroscuro, epilogue, figuration, interrelation, analogies, artistry, openended, polemical, wordy, acrimonious, answer, casuistic, collegial, dialectical, epistolary, socratic, tutorial, verbose, adversarial, andanswer, argumentative, digressive, ended, exegetical, nonthreatening, polemic

conflict, foil, oppose

contrapuntal, contrapuntist, inversion, unique

concerted music, differ, polyphonic music