CHARLES LEINBERGER, PH.D.
MUST 3212 Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
Fall Semester
Assignment 8
Week Topic Assignment Quiz?
9 Kennan: Chapter 15 Assignment 8 None
After reading Chapter 15, compose a subject to be used in your fugue, this semester's final project:
  1. You may choose either a major key or a minor key.
  2. The motive must be in common time and must be at least two measures, but no more than four measures.
  3. The key should be clearly defined by the first few notes of the motive. Be certain to include the tonic and dominant. The leading tone is also a good choice, especially in minor.
  4. It should follow the guidelines for a good melodic line:
    1. Leading tones go up to the tonic
    2. The subdominant is most effective when it goes down to the mediant, especially in major.
    3. Leaps are best when preceded and followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction.
  5. The motive should end in such a way as to prepare the entrance of the second voice at the dominant.
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