Exercise

Bass 302 — Modulation to the relative major (second key)

ModulationD minor

Corpus id bass-302 · cite this id — it is permanent

What it teaches

The same costless slide from D minor to F major: the pivot is the minor subdominant, the new dominant needs no accidental, and the close is suddenly bright.

The given bass

4/4	bar 1		bar 2		bar 3		bar 4		bar 5
Bass	D3		A2	D3	G2		C3		F3
Figures			#				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	E4	F4	G4	G4	F4
Alto	D4	C♯4	D4	D4	E4	C4
Tenor	A3	A3	A3	B♭3	B♭3	A3
Bass	D3	A2	D3	G2	C3	F3
Figures		#			7

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

The tenor’s B♭ is prepared as the subdominant’s third and held to become the new dominant’s seventh — the modulation’s only obligated tone, and it was in the key all along. The alto’s E, leading tone of the new key, takes the inner license down to the fifth at the close, and D minor’s darkness opens into F major without a single sign being spent.

At the keyboard

The three upper voices of the model realization fit under one hand. One accidental in the whole exercise, and it belongs to the OLD key. Everything after the double bar of the mind is played off the plain signature. Carry it into A minor, G minor.

Voice-leading patterns this exercise drills

Cite this exercise

Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-302 — Modulation to the relative major (second key). v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-302

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