Exercise

Bass 290 — Monte (second key)

SchemataG major

Corpus id bass-290 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The Monte again with the inflection in a different voice: the tenor’s C becomes C♯ in its own line as the second rung arrives.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Bass	G2	G2	C3	A2	D3	D3	G2
Figures		b7		7/#		7

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

The model realization

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4
Soprano	G4	G4	G4	G4	F♯4	F♯4	G4
Alto	D4	F4	E4	E4	D4	D4	D4
Tenor	B3	B3	C4	C♯4	A3	C4	B3
Bass	G2	G2	C3	A2	D3	D3	G2
Figures		b7		7/#		7

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

The same mountain from a new trailhead. The first rung’s seventh arrives by a small leap in the alto and falls by law; at the second rung the tenor keeps its own C and raises it — the inflection that GVL-050 requires to stay in one voice. At the dominant the tenor’s leading tone takes the inner license down to the fifth so the chord of arrival is whole, and the gathered seventh spends the climb on the close.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. Watch the tenor at the second rung: C held from the subdominant chord, then C sharp in the same finger. The Monte never hands its chromatic work to a neighbor voice. Carry it into C major, D major.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-290 — Monte (second key). v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-290

Corpus v1.0 · licensed CC-BY-4.0 · machine-readable at /api/v1/figured-bass/exercises/bass-290

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