Exercise

Bass 238 — V7 in root position, minor

Dominant seventh and inversionsD minor

Corpus id bass-238 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The root-position dominant seventh in minor: the figures carry both the sharp and the 7 — the raised third and the falling seventh, tension from both sides.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Bass	D3		B♭2	G2	A2	A2	D3
Figures			6		#	7/#

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

The model realization

4/4	bar 1	bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Soprano	F4	G4	G4	E4	E4	D4
Alto	D4	D4	D4	C♯4	C♯4	A3
Tenor	A3	B♭3	B♭3	A3	G3	F3
Bass	D3	B♭2	G2	A2	A2	D3
Figures		6		#	7/#

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

Minor’s dominant seventh is the corpus’s most obligated sonority so far: the raised third must rise, the seventh must fall, and they close onto the tonic chord from opposite sides — the two half-step pulls the whole cadence tradition is built from.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. The dominant carries two accidental-marked duties at once: the sharp pulls C sharp upward, the 7 pushes G downward. Feel the chord being stretched from both ends. Carry it into A minor, G minor.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-238 — V7 in root position, minor. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-238

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