Am I going along the right lines?

Hello.

I have learnt some counterpoint and have done some which I think is correct... However, in the book it doesn't talk about how one can actually USE counterpoint, in the form of a baroque dance or whatever.

This is a little piece, you should be able to tell which voice is the melody, it changes half way through.

This piece modulates to G, somehow, and finishes in G. I plan to end this work and go back to C major. However, it's hard when I don't really know a structure of my piece :(

thanks...

Finale plays everything at the same tempo and refuses to change whatever I do, so I can only provide a PDF...

Counterpoint 1.pdf

You were doing fine until you got to measure 7. From beat 2 to 3, you have committed parallel octaves, which are forbidden in traditional counterpoint: both voices move from F to E at the same time.

After measure 8 you begin making what it seems to me are occasional errors in judgment as far as voice leading is concerned; e.g. in measure 9, in the middle of the measure, the lower voice in context "wants" to move from F to E, but you take it up to G, which isn't the best voice leading. I would look for a better solution if I were you.

Otherwise, you appear to be learning this lesson fairly well. How precisely counterpoint is used in the context of composition is a rather complex question. Further experience will answer that for you.

Thanks for the tips.

By voice leading do you mean that the 2nd should resolve to the 1st, the 4th to the 3rd, the 6th to the 5th, and the 7th to the tonic?

I had forgotten about that, I was just making sure that I had the correct progressions of consonance and dissonance in the third species.

I think it will be easier to rework the whole counterpoint from bar 7, bearing in mind voice leading and consonances/dissonances.

However, first, can you tell me I got my idea of voice leading correct?

Would you also recommend me doing the 3rd section and going back to C major?

I have attached the file again, but just take note of the 7th bar, which is the only one I've changes so far. I've tried to get rid of the parallel octaves.

thank you

will

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Counterpoint 1.pdf