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A. Questions for Review | 87

NAME:

A. QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

1. What is species counterpoint? What is first species? What is second species? What

is fourth species?

2. In first species, what harmonic intervals are allowed between the two voices? What

harmonic intervals are forbidden?

3. In second species, where can dissonances appear? How must they be approached

and left?

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B. FIRST SPECIES

1. Ending: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the staves

(perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances in triangles). Find the voice-leading

errors. Write your answer(s) above the staves using the following abbreviations:

DISS (impermissible or improperly treated dissonance between the voices); MEL

(impermissible melodic interval); PAR or SIM (forbidden parallel or similar motion

to a fifth or octave); CHR (impermissible chromaticism); CAD (incorrect cadence).

2. Ending: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the last four notes of two cantus

firmi. For each, write the ending of a first-species counterpoint on the upper sta.

Label the intervals between the staves (perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances

in triangles).

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3. Beginning: Labeling the intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the

staves (perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances in triangles). Find the errors

in these first-species beginnings. Write your answer(s) above the staves: DISS

( impermissible or improperly treated dissonance between the voices); MEL

( impermissible melodic interval); PAR or SIM (forbidden parallel or similar motion

to a fifth or octave); CHR (incorrect chromaticism); CROSS (voice crossing);

START (wrong way to begin).

4. Beginning: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the first four notes of two cantus

firmi. Write the beginning of a first-species counterpoint above each. Label the

intervals between the staves.

5. Middle: Labeling the intervals and voice leading. The examples below represent a

middle portion: not including the beginning or the ending. Label the intervals

between the staves. Then find the errors. Write your answer(s) above the staves:

DISS (impermissible or improperly treated dissonance between the voices); MEL

(impermissible melodic interval); PAR or SIM (forbidden parallel or similar motion

to a fifth or octave); CHR (incorrect chromaticism); CROSS (voice crossing);

START (wrong way to begin); CAD (incorrect cadence).

6. Middle: Completing the counterpoint. Below are five notes from the middle of four

cantus firmi. Write first-species counterpoint for each, following any instructions

written above the sta. Label the intervals between the staves.

Leap up to this note, then step away from it.

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Leap up to this note, then step away from it.

7. First species, full counterpoint. Write a complete first-species counterpoint above

each cantus firmus. Label the intervals between the staves (perfect intervals go

in boxes, dissonances in triangles). These cantus firmi were composed by impor-

tant figures in the history of counterpoint. Strategies for composing counterpoint

appear in A Closer Look in the ebook.

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C. Second Species | 93

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C. SECOND SPECIES

1. Ending: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the staves

(perfect intervals in boxes; dissonances in triangles). Then find the errors in these

second-species endings. Write your answer(s) above the staves: DISS (impermissible

2. Ending: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the last three notes of two cantus

firmi. Write the end of a second-species counterpoint above each. Label the

intervals between the staves.

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3. Beginning: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the

staves of these second-species beginnings. Then find and label the errors: DISS

4. Beginning: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the first three notes of two cantus

firmi. Write the beginning of a second-species counterpoint above each. Label the

intervals between the staves.

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5. Middle: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the staves.

Then find and label the errors: DISS (impermissible or improperly treated

dissonance between the voices); MEL (impermissible melodic interval); PAR or

SIM (forbidden parallel or similar motion to a fifth or octave); CHR (incorrect

chromaticism); CROSS (voice crossing).

6. Middle: Completing the counterpoint. Below are four notes from the middle of two

cantus firmi. Some notes are provided in the upper voice; fill in the rest using

second-species counterpoint. Label the intervals between the staves.

7. Second species, short full counterpoint. Below are short cantus firmi. Write a second-

species counterpoint to each with a good beginning, middle, and end. Label the

intervals between the staves.

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8. Second species, long full counterpoint. Write a complete second-species counterpoint

for each cantus firmus. Label the intervals between the staves (perfect intervals in

boxes; dissonances in triangles). Strategies for composing counterpoint appear in

A Closer Look in the ebook.

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D. FOURTH SPECIES

1. Ending: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the staves

(perfect intervals in boxes; dissonances in triangles). Then find the errors, writing

your answers above the staves: DISS (impermissible or improperly treated

2. Ending: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the last four notes of two cantus

firmi. Write the end of a fourth-species counterpoint above each. Label the

intervals between the staves.

3. Beginning: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the

staves (perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances in triangles). Find the errors,

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4. Beginning: Completing the counterpoint. Below are the first notes of two cantus firmi.

Begin a fourth-species counterpoint above each. Label the intervals between the

staves.

5. Middle: Labeling intervals and voice leading. Label the intervals between the staves

(perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances in triangles). Then find the errors,

writing your answers above the staves: DISS (impermissible or improperly treated

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6. Middle: Completing the counterpoint. Below are five notes from the middle of

two cantus firmi. Write fourth-species counterpoint above each, following the

instructions. Label the intervals between the staves.

7. Fourth-species, complete short counterpoint. Below are short cantus firmi. Write

a fourth-species counterpoint to each with a good beginning, middle, and end.

Label the intervals between the staves.

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8. Fourth species, complete long counterpoint. Write a complete fourth-species

counterpoint for each cantus firmus. Label the intervals between the staves

(perfect intervals go in boxes, dissonances in triangles). Strategies for composing

counterpoint appear in A Closer Look in the ebook.

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