The point of this page is to discuss and achieve consensus about what should go in the Counterpoint article not to answer general questions about counterpoint and by now I think we ve strayed much too far afield Nevertheless Yes a contrapuntal duet for a single violin and a single cello remains just as contrapuntal if the violin part is assigned to a violin section and the cello part is assigned to a cello section Within the sections of course there is no counterpointunless someone is flubbing his part then we have what I call random counterpoint I think of a voice as a computer generated sound that has in its attempt to simulate a music instrument a specific waveform and sound envelope and does not otherwise vary greatly beyond a particular range of amplitudes and frequencies from second to second or minute to minute in a song This is a dumbed down abuse of the term promulgated by commercial electronic keyboard manufacturers in order to maximize sales In most case these sounds are not actually computer generated by the way rather they re samples that is digital recordings although they may be electronically tweaked The not dumbed down analog synthesis equivalent is patch Beware also of electronic keyboard manufacturers s abuse of the term polyphony