DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

500 INVERTIBLE COUNTERPOINT INVERTIBLE COUNTERPOINT
The chief subject passes from treble to tenor ;
it is twice modified, yet its spirit is entirely
preserved ; the inversion of the other parts is
free, beginning at the hfth and twelfth respec-
tively, but merging into what cannot be called
an inversion, and yet gives the feeling of one.
The third example is in four parts, and, as the
bass remains the same, it affords what would
seem a rare instance of an inversion in which
all the four parts are reproduced note for
note :
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