chord identification understanding voice-leading style awareness The ToolKIT, which is accessible from all pages of the site, outlines the three main analytical skills that TonalityGUIDE.com aims to develop. It also links to a short introduction to the study of tonality as well as a reminder of some basics (note and interval labels, clefs and transpositions).

The fifth and final species of exercise allows the student to combine the various types of motion against the cantus firmus in the first four species. Most of the same rules still apply and the student is encouraged achieve a balance between figures from different species.

Fifth species demonstrates an important aspect of music outside the rather artificial world of the counterpoint exercise. The basic progression in the last three bars below is the same as the fourth species exercise - a seventh resolving to a sixth twice followed by an octave (7-6-7-6-8). Here this progression is decorated by extra added notes but the basic underlying progression follows the rules. In looking at (and writing) tonal music it is important to be think in terms of underlying chord and voice-leading progressions that are decorated and embellished in various ways (see the embellishments and suspensions discussed elsewhere on TonalityGUIDE).

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