equal counterpoint

noun

old-fashioned

: strict counterpoint in which the parts move in even and identical note values : first species

In equal counterpoint, the leading of the several parts is independent only in a melodic sense.

—Theodore Baker, translation of Salomon Jadassohn, A Manual of Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple Counterpoint, 1902

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined above

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