in another. In all cases the concept was probably what Margaret Bent (1999) calls "dyadic counterpoint", with each part being written generally against one other part, with parts modified at the end if necessary. This point-against-point concept is opposed to "successive composition", where voices were written in an order with each new voice fitting into the previous construction.

The term polyphony is also sometimes used more broadly, to describe any musical texture that is not monophonic. Such