invertible counterpoint

noun

: musical counterpoint in which each part can be placed above or below any of the others

First his students wrote invertible counterpoint …, then turned to invertible canons, and finally applied their acquired contrapuntal skills to fugue writing.

—Sabine Feisst, Schoenberg’s New World, 2011

compare single counterpoint, double counterpoint, triple counterpoint, quadruple counterpoint

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

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