A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

SEVENTH EDITION

A Treatise on
Simple Counterpoint
in
Forty Lessons

By

Friedrich J. Lehmann

Instructor of Theory in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Author of "Lessons in Harmony"

G. SCHIRMER, INC.
NEW YORK

PREFACE

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The purpose of this work is to supply the need in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music of a text-book on Simple Counterpoint containing a definite assignment of lessons, and affording more practice than usual in combining species.

It is a treatise on strict counterpoint, but strict in a limited sense only. In two-part counterpoint with other than the first species in both parts, dissonances are permitted under certain conditions, and in three- and four-part writing the unprepared seventh and ninth, and the six-four chord, are allowed in certain ways.