4th - 5th Species Counterpoint

4th and 5th Species Counterpoint


Lecture Notes:

  • The fourth species counterpoint moves only the 3rd beat of each measure using only half notes.
  • The fourth species counterpoint has three (3)parts:
  • Preparation: The note from the previous bar will be consonant to agree with the bass note.
  • Suspension: The downbeat of the next measure will be dissonant because of the tied note from the previous measure to the next.
  • Resolution: The dissonant must resolve to a consonant on the 3rd beat.
Image from:
https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/species-counterpoint/


  • The fifth species counterpoint is a mixture of all of the species from the first to the fourth put together.

Image from:
https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/FifthSpecies.html

  • You must have eighth notes placed somewhere in the cantus firmus.
Image from:
http://www.fittonmusic.com/writing/harmony/counterpoint/fifthspeciescounterpoint.html




Here's a YouTube video from "AlanBelkin". In this video, he gives you to three steps of how the 4th species counterpoint is made (preparation, dissonance, and resolution). He also gives all of the possible upper and lower dissonances, and examples of the counterpoint given.



Here's a YouTube video from "Jon Veenker". In this video, he goes over all of the rules for the fifth species counterpoint. He also shows examples using the excerpt in the video. What's interesting is that the cantus firmus is in the treble clef and the bass clef has the fifth species counterpoint.





Above, are 2 videos of me playing a Fourth and Fifth Species Counterpoint above the Cantus Firmus that I composed in the key of C Major which has 12 measures. Below is my written composition of both the 4th and 5th species counterpoint.











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