Exercise

Bass 240 — V7 in 6/5, minor

Dominant seventh and inversionsA minor

Corpus id bass-240 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The 6/5 in minor, where the bass stands on the raised leading tone — printed on the staff, not in the figures — and rises home.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4		bar 5
Bass	A2		D3	E3	G♯3	A3	D3	E3	A2
Figures				#	6/5			#

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		bar 5
Soprano	E4	F4	E4	E4	E4	F4	E4	E4
Alto	C4	D4	B3	D4	C4	D4	B3	C4
Tenor	A3	A3	G♯3	B3	A3	A3	G♯3	A3
Bass	A2	D3	E3	G♯3	A3	D3	E3	A2
Figures			#	6/5			#

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

When the raised leading tone is the bass, it needs no figure: the staff carries the accidental and the 6/5 above is diatonic. The alto strikes the seventh freely and resolves it down while the bass climbs its half step — the same two pulls as the root position, redistributed.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. The accidental lives on the staff this time, not in the figures — the bass note itself is G sharp, and the 6/5 above it needs no marking. Carry it into E minor, D minor.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-240 — V7 in 6/5, minor. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-240

Corpus v1.0 · licensed CC-BY-4.0 · machine-readable at /api/v1/figured-bass/exercises/bass-240

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