May I know the question that we copy from white board is consider 1 bar per question or 3 bar for the whole question?
I quite blur with the starting and the ending, is that every bar must start and end with perfect consonance? Or only for 1st beat of bar 1 and last beat of bar 3?
thank you!
Hui Jing
Hui Jing,
ReplyDeleteThe exercises are called Fragment Exercises. So the idea is that they imitate a fragment of the counterpoint exercise at any given point. Therefore you don't have to limit yourself to starting and ending with perfect consonance - as it's only a snapshot of the eventual exercises.
So it is one bar per question. Another bar from another column has nothing to do with the previous one or the one after it. Remember, that's why I always wrote them from top to bottom, never left to right.
Hope this is clear.