Exercise

Bass 300 — Modulation to the relative minor (second key)

ModulationG major

Corpus id bass-300 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The same descent into the relative minor from G major: the pivot is C, and D♯ — a sharp the signature never promised — makes E minor real.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4		bar 5
Bass	G2		C3	B2	E3		A2	B2	E3
Figures				#				#

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		bar 5
Soprano	D4	E4	D♯4	E4	E4	D♯4	E4
Alto	B3	G3	B3	B3	C4	B3	B3
Tenor	G3	E3	F♯3	G3	A3	F♯3	G3
Bass	G2	C3	B2	E3	A2	B2	E3
Figures			#			#

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

The mirror of the last exercise, one key over: C major is IV at home and VI in E minor, and it faces both ways without moving. The ♯ over B does the whole work of arrival — D♯ is the tone that exists in no signature the student has seen this exercise, and its two strikes turn a borrowed color into a residence.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. Both cadences use the same two half steps — D sharp rising to E in the soprano, the bass falling B to E. Minor is entered the way it is always entered: by manufacturing the pull. Carry it into C major, D major.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-300 — Modulation to the relative minor (second key). v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-300

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