Examples from literature

• All suggestions made for the second species in two-part counterpoint are to be observed, unless otherwise mentioned. 
• For a very short time the rules of counterpoint were looked upon as eternal and immutable. 
• From the first he used counterpoint, canon, imitation, and all the devices of the contrapuntal style. 
• Write an original exercise in four-part counterpoint, extended to thirty-two measures. 
• Write two eight-measure phrases, and one sixteen-measure phrase, of original counterpoint in three parts.