History Main / CounterpointDuet

* "Where You Are" from ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' has the men's and women's choruses in counterpoint to each other.
* Melody and Ariel sing such a song, "For a Moment", in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea''.
* "Savages" from ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''. There is a Part 2 featuring Pocahontas singing with similar structures to the earlier songs "Steady as the Beating Drum" and "Listen With Your Heart".
* "For the First Time in Forever" and its reprise in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. The first version has Anna singing about her excitement that the castle gates are open once more while Elsa sings about her apprehension over the same thing. Meanwhile, the reprise has Anna trying to convince Elsa to return to Arendelle with her while Elsa tries to convince Anna that her remaining in the mountain is for the best.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': "Later Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise" has "Crappy/Happy Place", with Bob singing about how much he loves working in the community garden, and Louise and Linda singing about how much they hate having to put up with Logan Bush (Louise's teenage arch-enemy) and Cynthia (Logan's bossy, condescending mom).

* "Here I Am / [[Music/CyndiLauper 'Princesses' Wanna Have Fun"]] from WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePopstar.
** "I Am a Girl Like You" from WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper.

* ''Music/KidsPraise'': The 6th album's "[[EarWorm Pig Out]]" song finishes as this, with Harmony singing about pigging out and [[ItsAllAboutMe not caring about others]] simultaneously with Psalty [[WhatTheHellHero calling his daughter out on her attitude and behavior]] in the last chorus.

** ''Theatre/SpringAwakening''also has "Those You've Known", a duet between Moritz, [[spoiler:who tries to convince Melchior to commit suicide]] and Wendla, [[spoiler:who tries to convince him to stay alive.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOffEgypt'' has ''The Plagues'' which is set as Moses sends the Plagues to Egypt, all the while he regrets having to do it and he hates how he must make the Egyptians suffer. Meanwhile, Rameses thinks that Moses hates him and tries to harden his heart, refusing to give up the Hebrews.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceofEgypt'' has ''The Plagues'' which is set as Moses sends the Plagues to Egypt, all the while he regrets having to do it and he hates how he must make the Egyptians suffer. Meanwhile, Rameses thinks that Moses hates him and tries to harden his heart, refusing to give up the Hebrews.

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* The title song from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "I'm a Little Bit Country", with the country-loving rednecks supporting the war, and the rock-and-roll obsessed yuppies protesting it. The song is later reprised and turned into a MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber.
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* The final section of "Meet the Plastics" from ''Theater/MeanGirls'' counts as a counterpoint trio, with Gretchen's and Karen's verses melding with a reprise of "Where Do You Belong", sung by Regina.

** "Hello, Little Girl" from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''.

* The opening theme of ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'' is forms one of these out of a mashup between the Lupinranger theme "Lupinranger, Spin the Dials" and the Patranger theme "Chase You Up! Patranger".

* In ''Theatre/NextToNormal'', the song "Who's Crazy?/My Psychopharmacologist and I" is primarily sung by Diana and Dan, with the other actors as ensembles. Dan is reflecting on how and why Diana was having treatments while Diana was telling the audience her path of treatments.
** "You Don't Know/I Am The One".

* Creator/StephenSondheim:

* "This Isn't My Idea" from ''TheSwanPrincess'', in which Odette and Derek, as children, lament how their parents are forcing them to spend time together. It later turns into DuetBonding as they grow older and fall in love.

* "If I Told You (reprise)" from TheWeddingSinger Broadway Musical. Julia sings the melody from the original song with Robbie singing counterpoint with different lyrics and a different melody.

* "I Believe In You" from ''HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying.''

* On an episode of TheJudyGarlandShow, Creator/JudyGarland and BarbraStreisand did a CounterPointDuet of "Get Happy" and "Happy Days Are Here Again", respectively.

* At the end of Act One in the ''Series/{{Scrubs}} MusicalEpisode.

'''Mitch:''': He's written two tunes for this song.\\

'''Mitch:''': It's a sort of call-and-response thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...\\

* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' has a slightly odd example in "A Boy Like That," where Maria sings the melody of "I Have A Love" first as counterpoint to Anita, and only then as a song of its own.