A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

The solutions should be musical, and are to be written over and over again until such are secured.

All cadences of the second, third and fourth species, or any combination of these, may be used.

EXERCISES

To canti firmi a and b write two counterpoints above and two below, in the fifth species

Canti Firmi

Fig. 83.

LESSON X

FLORID COUNTERPOINT (Continued)

When florid counterpoint is combined with other than first species, the dotted half followed by a quarter-note (a), or two eighth-notes (b), is good. Also, a rhythmic figure, as at c, where a half-note occupies the second and third quarters, may be used. [[Fig. 84.]]

Fig. 84.