A Course of Counterpoint and Fugue (Volume I)

By L. Cherubini

Excerpt from Contents

BOOK I - COUNTERPOINT

I. Introduction

Preliminary Notions

Concords which may be used in strict Counterpoint

Discords to be employed in strict Counterpoint

Different kinds of movement, as conjunct, disjunct, similar, contrary, and oblique

II. Counterpoint in two Parts

First Species - Note against note

False Relations

III. Second Species in two Parts - two notes against one

IV. Third Species in two Parts - four notes to each semibreve

V. Fourth Species in two Parts - Syncopations

VI. Fifth Species in two Parts - Florid Counterpoint

VII. Counterpoint in three Parts

First Species - note against note

VIII. Second Species in three Parts - two minims to one semibreve

IX. Third Species in three Parts - four crotchets to one semibreve

X. Fourth Species in three Parts - Syncopations

Syncopations on a pedal-note, with examples

Second and fourth and third and fourth Species mixed, with examples

XI. Fifth Species in three Parts - Florid Counterpoint

Examples of the second and fifth Species combined

Ditto of Florid Counterpoint in two of the three parts

XII. Counterpoint in four Parts

First Species - note against note

Examples of the first, second, and third Species in four parts, and various combinations of them

XIII. Fourth Species in four Parts - Syncopations

Examples on Pedal Harmonies in four Parts

Combinations of the second, third, and fourth Species

XIV. Fifth Species in four Parts - Florid Counterpoint

Examples of Florid Counterpoint in two and in three of the four Parts

XV. Counterpoint in five, six, seven, and eight real Parts

Example for five voices - note against note

Ditto florid counterpoint in four of the parts

Ditto in six Parts - note against note

Ditto florid counterpoint in five of the parts

Ditto in seven parts - note against note

Ditto florid counterpoint in six of the parts

Ditto in eight parts - note against note

Ditto florid counterpoint in seven of the parts

Examples of the sixth struck together with the seventh, and the eighth with the ninth

Example for two Choirs in Florid Counterpoint without any given subject

BOOK II - IMITATION

XVI. On Imitation generally

Imitation in two parts, in similar motion

Examples in all Intervals

XVII. Imitation by contrary motion

Strict or regular imitation in contrary motion

Retrograde imitation in contrary motion

XVIII. Several other sorts of imitation: as

Imitation by augmentation

----- diminution

----- with reversed accents, or by arsin and thesin

Interrupted imitation

Convertible imitations...

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