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Exercise
Corpus id bass-295 · cite this id — it is permanent
To the dominant: the submediant is the pivot — vi of the home key, ii of the new — and the first ♯ in the figures is the moment the journey becomes audible.
| 4/4 | bar 1 | bar 2 | bar 3 | bar 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bass | C3 | E3 | A2 | D3 | D3 | G2 | ||
| Figures | 6 | # | 7/# | |||||
| 4/4 | bar 1 | bar 2 | bar 3 | bar 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soprano | E4 | G4 | A4 | A4 | A4 | G4 | ||
| Alto | C4 | C4 | C4 | D4 | C4 | B3 | ||
| Tenor | G3 | G3 | E3 | F♯3 | F♯3 | D3 | ||
| Bass | C3 | E3 | A2 | D3 | D3 | G2 | ||
| Figures | 6 | # | 7/# | |||||
The pivot chord belongs to both worlds: A minor is the home key’s submediant and the new key’s supertonic, and the realization changes nothing to cross it. The ♯ figures then raise F in the tenor’s own line, the seventh gathers, and the close is a full cadence in G — the local home has shifted, announced by nothing but two sharps riding the figures.
This realization is choral — the upper voices exceed a single hand’s span. Play to the third bar and stop: nothing has left home yet. The ♯ under the next bass note is the pivot turning — F sharp exists only in the key you are about to be in. Carry it into F major, G major.
Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-295 — Modulation to the dominant. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-295
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