I've also heard highland pipers talk of it as "question and answer".
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I've just finished reading William Donaldson's book on Scottish piping
"Pipers" and in the final section he looks at a couple of tunes. In
analyzing the piobaireachd Black Donald's March he refers a single short
figure "repeatedly asserted, and alternating with other set figures to
produce an antiphonal "call and response" sequence".
