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Exercise
Corpus id bass-322 · cite this id — it is permanent
The comprehensive test, minor: the raised ascent to a half close, the half-diminished 6/5 carried through the cadential six-four, and a Picardy final — the accidentals are the examination, and every one is derivable.
| 4/4 | bar 1 | bar 2 | bar 3 | bar 4 | bar 5 | bar 6 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bass | A2 | B2 | C3 | D3 | E3 | D3 | E3 | E3 | A2 | |||
| Figures | #6/4/3 | 6 | 6/5 | # | 6/5 | 6/4 | # | # | ||||
| 4/4 | bar 1 | bar 2 | bar 3 | bar 4 | bar 5 | bar 6 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soprano | A4 | G♯4 | A4 | B4 | B4 | B4 | C5 | B4 | C♯5 | |||
| Alto | E4 | E4 | E4 | F4 | E4 | F4 | E4 | E4 | E4 | |||
| Tenor | C4 | D4 | C4 | A3 | G♯3 | A3 | A3 | G♯3 | A3 | |||
| Bass | A2 | B2 | C3 | D3 | E3 | D3 | E3 | E3 | A2 | |||
| Figures | #6/4/3 | 6 | 6/5 | # | 6/5 | 6/4 | # | # | ||||
Minor’s comprehensive is an essay on the raised tone and the obligated one: the ascent borrows the dominant’s accidental over its second degree and halts on a half close; the half-diminished 6/5 then rebuilds the tension, its seventh riding through the cadential six-four as the suspended fourth before falling onto the sharp; and the final chord asks for one sign more — not a leading tone this time but the borrowed major third, ending a minor argument in the light. Write the signs; the corpus taught every one.
This realization is choral — the upper voices exceed a single hand’s span. Every accidental you must supply has a reason you already know: the ♯6/4/3 on the second degree, the ♯ at each true dominant, and the last ♯ of all — the Picardy third brightening the final chord from the top of the texture. Carry it into D minor, E minor.
Gradus Figured-Bass Corpus, bass-322 — Unfigured: comprehensive, minor. v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/figured-bass-corpus/exercise/bass-322
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