Analyzing Your Counterpoint [3-Part, 5th Species]

As a counterpoint student or composer, learning and working with these analysis elements will improve your work in species exercises and composition in general.

0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Working with C Clefs
1:12 - Character of Melody
2:53 - Leaps and Compensation
5:25 - [Play-through] - Single Line Melodies
6:40 - Dissonances
9:16 - Cadence
9:43 - [Play-through] - All voices
10:12 - Conclusion

You can apply these analysis points in 2, 3, or 4 parts, and virtually across the species (although, for example, you won't analyze dissonances in 1st species).
This analysis is done according to the Renaissance style as taught in the Jeppesen text, modeled after Palestrina and contemporaries. This analysis assumes you understand, or are getting to know some of the counterpoint terminology - there are resources linked in the video description to help.

----*additional note*---- ( leap rhythm):
Leaps from quarters that happen from the arsis or thesis can be descending only, while from the weak beats they can ascend also. Composite leaps in quarters are forbidden, but the upper part of the leap may have the stepwise movement of a second if properly placed / compensated.

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PDF from Analysis:
https://bit.ly/3odyf7e

Other Resources:
https://everything.explained.today/Counterpoint/

https://www.ars-nova.com/cpmanual/fundamentals.htm
https://www.ars-nova.com/cpmanual/species.htm

Used in this Video:
Notation Software - Dorico Pro 3.5
VST - Olympus Elements
Background - Orchestron; Mynoise.net
Screen marker - Epic Pen

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