The art of counterpoint: a Mazzola-type three-voice first-species counterpoint model

Ren Okumura, Takuro Shibayama

We propose a three-voice extension of Mazzola's algebraic model of first-species counterpoint. A three-voice sonority is represented as \(a+\varepsilon_1 .b+\varepsilon_2 .c\), whe…