CHARLES LEINBERGER, PH.D.
MUST 3216 Music Theory Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
Fall Semester 2005, TR, 1030-1120AM, FFA Room M402
Assignment 2
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2 September 5 Kennan: Chapters 3, 4 Assignment 2 None
After reading Chapters 3 and 4, use Finale ® music notation software (and an approved template), to compose a cantus firmus. Open Finale’s “Grand Staff.ftm” template. The cantus firmus must meet the following requirements:
  • The cantus firmus is to be four measures in length, in a major key, in common time, using treble clef.
  • Use quarter notes, except for half notes at 2.3 and 4.3.
  • Leading tones must go up.
Use your cantus firmus in a 1:1 two-voice example, adding a bass voice (in bass clef):
  • Use essential intervals only
  • Label intervals between the staves (use Finale’s Expression tool, attach expression to “This Staff Only”).
  • No parallel fifths or octaves.
  • Don’t double the leading tones.
  • Use no more than four parallel 3rds (10th) or 6ths (13ths) consecutively.
Use your cantus firmus in a 2:1 two-voice example:
  • Label intervals between the staves (use Finale’s Expression tool).
  • Use non-harmonic tones (NHTs) on weak beats only.
  • Label all NHTs (use Finale’s Expression tool, attach expression to “This Staff Only”).
  • Resolve NHTs correctly.
  • Use eighth notes in the bass voice, except for half notes at 2.3 and 4.3.
Use Finale’s “Page Setup” tool to remove the empty staff from the cantus firmus.
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