Double or Invertible Counterpoint is a particular technique to write a two part counterpoint where the two voices can be inverted creating a new effective combination.

There are 3 main types of double counterpoint:

🎼 Invertible Counterpoint at the 8ve

🎼 Invertible Counterpoint at the 10th

🎼 Invertible Counterpoint at the 12th

We can say that, most likely, when Nicola Fago wrote this Partimento, he was thinking to a pedagogical way to put the Powerful and necessary practice of Double Counterpoint in a simple Partimento accessible even to beginners.

So, go to the keyboard, take pen and paper and let's practice together Double Counterpoint.