Exercise

Bass 216 — Evaded cadence, minor

Cadence formulasA minor

Corpus id bass-216 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The evaded cadence, second form: the dominant steps to the tonic’s first inversion directly — where the deceptive close substitutes a different chord, the evaded close substitutes a different inversion.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Bass	A2	E3	C3	D3	E3		A2
Figures		#	6		#

The given bass and its figures (A minor, 4/4; ⌒ = tied from the previous note)

The model realization

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3	bar 4
Soprano	E4	E4	E4	F4	E4	C4
Alto	C4	B3	A3	D4	B3	A3
Tenor	E3	G♯3	A3	A3	G♯3	E3
Bass	A2	E3	C3	D3	E3	A2
Figures		#	6		#

The model realization (A minor, 4/4; ⌒ = tied from the previous note)

The tendency tones all resolve correctly — the leading tone rises, the arrival is a tonic chord — but the bass stands on the third, and a chord standing on its third cannot end anything. The true close follows, same dominant, this time falling to the root.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. The leading tone resolves upward into the evasion exactly as it would into a real close — play both endings and prove it to the hand. Carry it into E minor, D minor.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-216 — Evaded cadence, minor. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-216

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