[Smt-talk] First Species Question

[Rob Haskins]

Hi Dmitri,
I don't have the book near me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure  
that's expressly prohibited in Salzer/Schachter Counterpoint in  
Composition.
Best,
Rob


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* Dmitri Tymoczko <dmitri at princeton.edu> [Tue 06 Jul 2010 09:44:44 AM EDT]:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Recently I found myself looking through various first-species  
> counterpoint rules and I noticed that neither Fux nor Jeppeson nor  
> Gauldin prohibits consecutive (contrary motion) fifths in  
> first-species counterpoint:
>
> 	e.g. (C4, G4)->(F3, C5) or (C4, G4)->(C5, F4)
>
> This led me to two questions:
>
> 	1) Does anyone know of a set of first-species rules that *does*  
> prohibit consecutive fifths of this sort?  In particular, what's the  
> earliest treatment of the issue?
> 	2) Can anyone think of any examples, preferably in two voices and  
> from some Josquin-to-Lassus Renaissance master, of this sort of thing?
>
> I can think of examples of consecutive fifths in three separate  
> voices, as in (C3, G3, x) -> (D3, x, A3), but that's not as dramatic.
>
> Thanks!
> DT
>
> Dmitri Tymoczko
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