A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

EXERCISES

Write one eight-measure phrase with two notes to the measure in one part and six in the other; one with three notes in one and six in the other; and one with two notes in one part and four in the other. ([Fig. 59.]) In combining the species in this and succeeding lessons the student may place any species in any part.

To the cantus firmus write two counterpoints above and two below, in the fourth species.

Cantus Firmus

Fig. 70.