: Confusing passage from The Study of Counterpoint Here is the passage: Joseph: I wanted to write a sixth here. But when I studied singing, I learned that fa leads down and mi leads up. Since the progression moves upward from

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Confusing passage from The Study of Counterpoint
Here is the passage:
Joseph: I wanted to write a sixth here. But when I studied singing, I learned that fa leads down and mi leads up. Since the progression moves upward from the sixth into a third I have used a sharp in order to emphasize the tendency to ascend. Besides, the f in the eleventh bar would result in a harsh relation with the f# in the thirteenth bar.

My question is: Why does f# have a tendency to ascend to g and not descend to f since both g and f are one semitone away from f#. f# can be interpreted as either a mi or fa right?

Or should f# be interpreted as the raised seventh in the mode G?

By the way, this isn't the same question as I asked earlier.
It's a different question on the same passage.

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