How to use this page
Don't start with the answer. Start with the cantus, sing your own line against it, and only then compare. Right or wrong matters less than the listening. The drill below paces that for you: it plays the cantus, gives you exactly one passage-length of silence to sing, then reveals and plays the answer — and does the same for the inversion.
1 · The worked example from the workshop
First Species above the Dorian cantus, then dropped an octave. Interval figures are printed over every attack.
Original
Inverted
2 · Your exercise — audiation drill
Write a first-species counterpoint above this cantus using only 3rds and 6ths between the perfect edges. Then copy your line an octave lower and check every bar.
One answer (there are others)
The same answer, inverted
3 · Files
MusicXML opens in MuseScore (free), Dorico, Sibelius or Finale — edit it, transpose it, replace the line with your own.
Workshop 13.1 - Slide 3.musicxmlWorkshop 13.1 - Slide 4.musicxmlWorkshop 13.1 - Slide 7 (answer key, inverted).musicxmlWorkshop 13.1 - Slide 7 (answer key, original).musicxmlWorkshop 13.1 - Slide 7 (cantus).musicxml