Lesson with healey.cj

I've added the middle voice and also written (text) the triad chords that they make as it shows the lack of a well crafted chord-progression regardless of the fact that it fulfills the present criteria.

Thanks again, this is actually quite fun :-) lol

Chris :-)

Your label of A minor is wrong - that's an F in second inversion.
You have 4ths between bass and alto in several places.
The piece *does* lack a well-crafted progression. You have too many minor chords in a row, and you basically go about in a circle.
I would have made the second chord a C in first inversion (if using your bass). Double the E to avoid having a 4th between bass and alto. When writing for 3 voices, you can double or have octaves of notes, but rarely.
Anyway, you must decide for yourself how the progression goes, but you have too many weak chord progressions in a row.(not to mention parallel 4ths)

I'll get back to you.

Okay... How about this one. I have had to rewrite the bass to get somewhat of a progression. It does break the 'fourths' rule though.

Chris :-)

The "fourths rule" is there for a reason - you should not break it in this situation.
There are still a bunch of errors in this, so I'll give you some more first species 2 part exercises.

Okay, no worries :-)

Thanks,
Chris :-)

Yeah... so about those first species examples?

Ok, let me see if I can get you some.

The following link links to a picture file of two canti firmi.
I want you to write first-species counterpoint to each cantus firmus, taking the C.F. as first the soprano, and second the bass. When taking the C.F. as the bass, you may lower that part by an octave.
I will be expecting 4 separate exercises.
If you have any questions, please be sure to ask me.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16342/16342-h/images/fig033.png

I wish I could say I wrote the following:

http://www.mozart-weltweit.eu/mozart-archiv/15a07.mp3

It seems almost perfect lol

I'm just looking at the species now
Chris :-)

I can't directly access the picture through that link but I have downloaded the .zip version of the Counterpoint book on the Gutenburg website.

So from now on you can just refer me to figures if that is more convinent. I am looking at figure 33 at the moment.

So you want me to individually write each part with the exercise independant of the other (ie. 4 files or whatever).

Or did you want me to write a complete 4 part counterpoint to both Cantus Firmus as is (treble) and then both written for bass?

Also, am I to think about progression or to simply abide by the initial criteria?

Chris :-)