Exercise

Bass 237 — V7 in root position

Dominant seventh and inversionsC major

Corpus id bass-237 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The dominant seventh in root position: the triad takes its seventh as the doubled root falls a step, and the new tone must fall again into the tonic chord.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Bass	C3		A2	F2	G2	G2	C3
Figures						7

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

The model realization

4/4	bar 1	bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Soprano	E4	E4	F4	D4	D4	C4
Alto	C4	C4	C4	B3	B3	G3
Tenor	G3	A3	A3	G3	F3	E3
Bass	C3	A2	F2	G2	G2	C3
Figures					7

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

The seventh enters as the doubled root steps down — the mildest of entries — and at once the chord is restless: the F owes a fall the triad did not. At the resolution every obligation pays at once: seventh down, leading tone up by license into the fifth, and the tonic chord is complete.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. Watch the tenor: G falls to F as the figure 7 appears, then F falls to E as the harmony changes. Two steps down, each one demanded. Carry it into G major, F major.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-237 — V7 in root position. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-237

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