Counterpoint

[Lander.vast]

So I've been watching this guy in youtube explain about it 'cause I only have studied jazz.
The guy says that intervals of 2,7,b2,b7,4aug,5dim are forbiden, but I guess he's talking in the vertical between the voice of the cantus firmus and the counterpoint, in the horizontal the guy does lots of seconds, up to a point when he says that also you can't do 4aug in the horizontal, he jumps from an F to a B.

My question is, wich are the permited intervals in the vertical and wich are forbiden, and the same thing in the horizontal?



It's a series of videos but I only saw till the lesson 5 here is the first lesson link



I think he talks about the F to B thingy in lesson 3 at 6:20.

[Ogg Vorbis]

Hi Lander,

As a person who has studied counterpoint at two universities and went through the entire Fux book by myself in various iterations, I can tell you that this human being doesn't understand counterpoint. He begins by completely mis-defining it and then it plunges into eternal darkness after that.

If you wish to understand this discipline better, this is a case where a book will benefit you. I can only recommend books that I've studied out of. One is Walter Piston and the other is Alfred Mann's edition of "The Study of Counterpoint."

Counterpoint is NOT synonymous with polyphony. These two terms are constantly confused. When you look at these books you will see many many many exercises involving homophony (an active voice over whole notes).

[Lander.vast]

Thanks man, I'm going to try and get those two version