13.+Chapter

Chapter 13 terms thanks to Danny Komperda!!! 1) Anticipation – An embellishing tone whose pitch of resolution arrives “early”. An anticipation is unaccented, and almost always a dissonance. It doesn’t resolve by step-rather, it’s repeated as a consonance on the next beat, where it “belongs”. 2) Compound Melody – A melody created by the interaction of two or three voices, usually separated by register. Often with large leaps. 3) Consonant Skip – Another term for chordal skip. 4) Double Neighbor – The combination of successive upper and lower neighbors around the same pitch. 5) Double Passing Tones – Passing tones that occur simultaneously in two or more voices, usually creating parallel thirds or sixths. 6) Incomplete Neighbor – A neighbor tone minus either the initial motion from the main pitch to the neighbor, or the returning motion of the neighbor to the main pitch. 7) Neighbor Tone – An embellishment that decorates a melody pitch by moving to a pitch a step above or below it, then returning to the original pitch. Neighbor tones are approached and left by step, in opposite directions. 8) Passing Tone – A melodic embellishment that fills in the space between chord members by stepwise motion. It is approached by step and left by step in the same direction. 9) Pedal Point – A note held for several measures while harmonies change above it. Chords above a pedal point do not participate in the harmonic framework. 10)Retardation – A rhythmic embellishment where a consonance is held over to the next beat, creating a dissonance with the new harmony. The dissonance is resolved upward by step, creating another consonant interval. 11)Suspension – A rhythmic embellishment where a consonance is held over to the next beat, creating a dissonance with the new harmony. The dissonance is resolved downward by step, creating another consonant interval. Suspensions are designated by intervals above the bass. 12)Suspension Chain – A combined succession of suspensions, sometimes of a single type, or alternations of two kinds; the resolution of each suspension prepares the next.