Exercise

Bass 248 — V7 deceptive resolution, minor

Dominant seventh and inversionsD minor

Corpus id bass-248 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The deceptive resolution with the seventh aboard: V7 resolves to the submediant, every tendency tone keeping its promise — the promise broken is only the bass’s.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4		bar 5
Bass	D3		G2	A2	B♭2		G2	A2	D3
Figures				7/#				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		bar 5
Soprano	F4	G4	G4	F4	G4	G4	F4
Alto	D4	D4	C♯4	D4	D4	C♯4	D4
Tenor	A3	B♭3	A3	F3	B♭3	A3	A3
Bass	D3	G2	A2	B♭2	G2	A2	D3
Figures			7/#			7/#

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

In the triadic deception two voices land on the submediant’s third and double it; with the seventh aboard, the seventh’s fall claims one of those places for the fifth, so the submediant arrives with its third single and its fifth doubled — the root left to the bass alone. The leading tone still rises, the seventh still falls — the deception is entirely the bass’s doing, rising a half step onto ♭6 instead of falling home.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. Play both halves and notice the right hand barely changes: the deception and the true close resolve the same three obligations — only the left hand chooses differently. Carry it into A minor, G minor.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-248 — V7 deceptive resolution, minor. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-248

Corpus v1.0 · licensed CC-BY-4.0 · machine-readable at /api/v1/figured-bass/exercises/bass-248

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