double counterpoint

American  

noun

Music.

1. invertible counterpoint using two transposable voices.

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Example Sentences

Before long, Adrian had secretly mastered the keyboard, discovered double counterpoint on his own and become the apple of the local music teacher's eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this involves the inversion of two of the counterpoints with each other in the 9th, a kind of double counterpoint which is almost impossible.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

I laughed sardonically as this mass of double counterpoint crackled and blazed, and went sparkling out into ashes.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

The double counterpoint of the Kyrie in Mozart’s Requiem is still more indisputably identical with that of the last chorus of Handel’s Joseph, and if the themes are common property their combination certainly is not.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

He also defines double counterpoint, and gives examples.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)