2020年11月16日 · Here is an example syllabus for a counterpoint class and it gives a list of rules for the cantus firmus. You can also get similar stuff from other counterpoint books. Look for Fux's Gradus that's the classic text. Goetschius' Applied Counterpoint has a detailed intro for melody rules, although it isn't specifically labeled cantus firmus.

2020年8月26日 · In the baroque period, composing around a cantus firmus became less common, but students were still frequently taught how to compose in a traditional style by being given a fixed melody (a cantus firmus, which may or may not have anything to do with chant). Students were then asked to write other parts around this cantus firmus. The idea is ...

The cantus firmus below is an example composed by Heinrich Schenker and has the following notes and the intervals from note to next note counting both white and black keys on the piano: c1 d f e f g a g e d c 2,3,11,1,2,2,10,9,10,10 (intervals of above notes) Why is Schenker using both major seventh (11 half steps) and minor seventh (10 half ...

2013年5月22日 · If the counterpoint is below the cantus firmus then it must begin with the octave or unison. It cannot start with the fifth degree of the scale because when a perfect-fifth is inverted, it becomes a fourth, which Fux and others categorize as a dissonant interval.

2019年4月24日 · Things can get confusing if we discuss the leading tone and resolution_and_ jump between different musical styles. You mentioned cantus firmus which suggests 16th century counterpoint, modal scales, and the species counterpoint teaching of Fux. In the 18th century homophonic style the leading tone and harmony have a different treatment with ...

2019年8月18日 · I am currently working through "Gradus ad Parnassum" in its english translation (Alfred Mann). In chapter One "Note against Note" (p. 27) I encounter "Principles for the forming of the melodies are discussed later". I have actually read through the First Part (Two Part Counterpoint) and there was hardly any discussion of cantus firmus rules.

The cantus firmus of Bach's cantata 140 is a hymn tune that was written in 1598 (and starts with an ascending triad). The song l'homme armé, cantus firmus for many a mass setting, existed by the middle of the 15th century, 150 years earlier. Still other pieces use a cantus firmus from the chant repertoire, which existed centuries earlier ...

In the given image below, Fux writes a counterpoint to a cantus firmus given to him as part of his studies by his fictitious teacher Aloysious. A rule that is often emphasised is that one should remain in the mode (in this case, the mixolydian mode), and there should be NO accidentals, except in the second to last bar where the 7th has to be ...

2021年3月15日 · I have a Cantus Firmus in D dorian mode that I am trying to write a 4 part counterpoint exercise with. In my textbook it says that since we have 4 notes per triad I need to double a note per triad to get a 4 voice voicing.

2015年7月5日 · The cantus firmus proposed by master Aloys avoids the note altogether, and in the counterpoint done by the pulpil Joseph, whenever a B appears, it is always B flat and it doesn't seem to be avoiding any tritones that I am aware of.