The idea is at least as old as 1532, when Giovanni Maria Lanfranco described a similar concept in his Scintille di musica (Brescia, 1533).
分类对位法可以追溯到1532年，当时，Giovanni Maria Lanfranco在他的著作《Scintille di musica》(Brescia, 1533)中，记述了一种类似的教学法。