Counterpoint Final Exam MUS 411 Counterpoint
You may bring blank staff paper as well as a hard copy of the Species Counterpoint Quiz.
Composition — Write species counterpoint. I will provide a cantus firmus. (Study species 1–4.)
      — Write invertible counterpoint and explain any resulting poor counterpoint. I will provide 2-part counterpoint.
Analysis — Identify harmonic intervals by number, then circle and identify any dissonances. (See pp. 170 & 171.)
      — Identify themes, counterthemes, sequences, inversion and principal modulations in a Bach invention
      — Identify subjects, countersubjects, the exposition, sequences, inversion, stretto and principal modulations in a Bach fugue.
Listening — Identify the following contrapuntal compositions by ear:
  • J.S. Bach Cello Suite 1 Prelude 1
  • J.S. Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book I Prelude in C
  • Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis "Fuga secunda in G" (p. 11)
  • Bartók's Mikrokosmos Book III "Chromatic Invention" (p. 20)
  • J.S. Bach Invention No. 1 in C (pp. 200 & 201)
  • J.S. Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book I "C minor Fugue" (pp. 233 & 234)
  • J.S. Bach “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
  • J.S. Bach The Musical Offering (p. 240 & the handout)
  • J.S. Bach The Art of the Fugue (as well as p. 245)
  • Handel Messiah Amen (from the very end of the oratorio)
  • Mozart Requiem Kyrie
  • Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues "Fugue in A major" and "Fugue in D flat major"
(Page numbers refer to Owen's Modal and Tonal Counterpoint.)