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In music, counterpoint is a texture involving the simultaneous sounding of separate melodies or lines "against" each other.

Counterpoint may also refer to:

Music

• Counterpoint (Jason Webley album), 2002
• Counterpoint (In the Nursery album), 1989
• Counterpoints (Argent album), 1975
• Counterpoints (McCoy Tyner album), 2004
• Counterpoint (Schenker), the second volume of Heinrich Schenker's New Musical Theories and Fantasies
• "Counterpoint", a song by Delphic from the album Acolyte

Film, television and radio

• Counterpoint (radio programme), a musical quiz show on BBC Radio 4
• "Counterpoint" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode from the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager
• Counterpoint (Radio National), an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program
• Counterpoint (film), a 1968 war film starring Charlton Heston
• Counterpoint (TV series), a Canadian current affairs television series on CBC Television in 1967

Other

• Counterpoint (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
• Counterpoint (publisher), an American publishing house

See also

• ContraPoints, a YouTube channel
• "Point/Counterpoint", a segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes (1971–1979)
• "Point/Counterpoint", a parody of the 60 Minutes segment on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update
• Point Counter Point, a 1928 novel by Aldous Huxley
• "Point/Counterpoint", a song by Streetlight Manifesto from the album Everything Goes Numb
• Counterplot (disambiguation)