How do you pronounce Contrappeso?

Contrappeso is pronounced "kon-trap-PEH-zoh".

Contrappeso

A niche orchestration concept referring to the balancing of harmonic weight between contrasting sonorities

About Contrappeso

Contrappeso (Italian for "counterweight") is an uncommon theoretical term occasionally encountered in discussions of orchestrationOrchestrationThe art of assigning musical material to specific instruments within an orchestra to create desired…View full entry → and harmonic balance. It describes the principle that dense, heavily voiced chords in one registerRegisterA particular range or portion of the pitch spectrum available to a voice or instrument.View full entry → or timbreTimbreThe characteristic quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another.View full entry → should be offset by lighter, more transparent voicings in what follows, maintaining an equilibrium of sonic weight across a passage.