A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

Oblique motion to the unison is bad. It is permitted if it continues in the same direction through the unison. [[Fig. 48.]]

Fig. 48.

The unison may be used on any but the first quarter of a measure.

Frequent repetition of a figure as in [Fig. 49] is not good.

Fig. 49.

The embellishment may be used either above or below, whether a semitone or a whole tone; but when it is a whole tone below, it is most satisfactory as the ninth of the implied chord. [[Fig. 50.]]

Fig. 50.

In minor the sixth and seventh degrees of the scale are raised both ascending and descending, when used in harmonies containing the leading-tone as a chord-tone. They are unaltered both ascending and descending in harmonies containing the sixth degree of the scale as a chord-tone. In other harmonies they are raised in ascending only.

The sixth or seventh degrees may be chromatically altered with only one note intervening. [[Fig. 51.]]

Fig. 51.