Excerpt from Counterpoint Applied in the Invention, Fugue, Canon and Other Polyphonic Forms: An Exhaustive Treatise on the Structural and Formal Details of the Polyphonic or Contrafuntal Forms or Music, for the Use of General and Special Students of Music

This particular passage represents, Simply, a continuous scale-passage, with two shifts to the next higher Octave-register, - a device which is very common and effective in contrapuntal melodies, and possible in either direction. The rule at a', however, applies to other cases also (ex.

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