A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Double Counterpoint

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From volume 1 of the work.

1504149A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Double Counterpoint

DOUBLE COUNTERPOINT is the accompaniment of a subject or melody by another melody, so contrived as to be capable of use either below or above the original subject. See examples given under Counterpoint (p. 408).