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Euler - Excellent job. Yes, the ending on the fifth does sound very early music - esp in 2 parts. As you get to 3 parts or more, the third fills in the fifth to create a complete triad.
Let me applaud three especially fine things -
1) Measures 4 & 5 -- Everyone please look at this wonderful model of voice exchange! Voice Exchange simply means that one voice echoes the others pitch in the following beat. in Euler's case, in msr 4 the bass note is echoed by the treble and the treble note echoed by the bass in msr 5. Voice exchange is important as it is the contrapuntal basis of chordal inversions. This is a great technique to employ time to time.
2) Msrs 9 - 12 is very adept - note how he uses parallel motion of 6ths and then counters it with contrary motion.
3) Notice how he approaches 5ths with contrary motion.
Two small corrections -
1) You incorrectly labeled one of your intervals (note - Euler reduced the compound intervals to their smallest size for ease). Go through your exercise and please check the accuracy of your interval identification.
2) You have one error in your melody. Recall the rule - all Perfect, Major and Minor intervals to the 5th are allowed as well as the octave to ascend or descend. That means P5, P4, maj3 min 3, maj2, min2, P8. Also ascending maj or min 6ths are allowed. So, please identify where the melodic motion is incorrect and why.
Overall, great job Euler. Is this your first time doing this?
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