A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

Fig. 73.

The leading-tone may be doubled as in [Fig. 74.] Here the leading-tone that is prepared skips to some other chord-tone, while the new leading-tone remains stationary.

Fig. 74.

The minor or diminished seventh, major or minor ninth, may be used as preparation of a suspension in either part, provided it is approached by a skip in an upward direction, and is consonant with the other part, or is one of the permitted dissonances. [[Fig. 75.]]

Fig. 75.

The fourth species may be combined with the second or third species, and two or three notes syncopated may be written in one part with six in the other. [[Fig. 76.]]

Fig. 76.

EXERCISES

To the cantus firmus write one counterpoint above and one below, in the fourth species.

Write one eight-measure phrase each, of the following combinations: The fourth species with the second; the fourth with the third; two notes syncopated against six notes; and three notes syncopated against six notes. Write some in major and some in minor. [[Fig. 76.]]