Counter Point 4

Todays topic was about fourth species in music and suspension.

a ratio to determine fourth species is 4:1 whihc is similar to third species but their difference would be taht fourth has suspernsions and third does not.

A suspension in music is the dissonance that responds or be played to a strong beat in a music.

This picture shows the steps of how to start and end a suspension. It begins with the preparation the starting note whihc should ne constance and then moves on to the suspension whih should be dissonance and then end on the resolution which is constance.

This is an example of fourth species with the sispension on the strong beat.

This is a video showing you the details of what each section of the suspension chord means and what they should sound like when being played.

In the video it shows you the different areas of counterpoint as in fourth species and suspension. It shows the diferent steps of a suspension chord.

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