A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in FortyLessons, by Friedrich J. LehmannThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty LessonsAuthor: Friedrich J. LehmannRelease Date: July 21, 2005 [EBook #16342]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREATISE ON SIMPLE ***Produced by David Newman, Dainis Millers and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net_SEVENTH EDITION_A Treatise onSimple CounterpointinForty LessonsByFriedrich J. Lehmann_Instructor of Theory in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Author of"Lessons in Harmony"_G. SCHIRMER, INC.NEW YORKPREFACEThe purpose of this work is to supply the need in the Oberlin Conservatoryof Music of a text-book on Simple Counterpoint containing a definiteassignment of lessons, and affording more practice than usual in combiningspecies.It is a treatise on strict counterpoint, but strict in a limited senseonly. In two-part counterpoint with other than the first species in bothparts, dissonances are permitted under certain conditions, and in three-and four-part writing the unprepared seventh and ninth, and the six-fourchord, are allowed in certain ways.While ...