A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

by Friedrich J. Lehmann

Canti Firmi

Fig. 93.

LESSON XII

THE SECOND SPECIES

Fig. 94.

The second species is written in one part and the first in the other two.

All suggestions made for the second species in two-part counterpoint are to be observed, unless otherwise mentioned. Those regarding consecutive perfect intervals are especially to be observed.

The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V⁴₃ or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.

The V⁴₃ chord may be used on the weak beat, necessitating the omission of the third. [[Fig. 95a].]

The third may be omitted (b), or doubled (c), on the weak beat in this and succeeding species. [[Fig. 95.]]