Other Diatonic Seventh Chords
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How does adding a seventh to the tonic triad affect its function in traditional tonal music?
View answer and explanationWhat is the typical chord progression involving the subdominant seventh chord (IV7 or iv7)?
View answer and explanationWhat potential voice-leading error can occur when a iv7 chord moves directly to a V chord, if the 7th of the iv7 is placed above its 3rd?
View answer and explanationWhat is the typical harmonic function of the #viø7 chord in a minor key?
View answer and explanationWhat voice-leading rule governs a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence using root position seventh chords?
View answer and explanationWhich diatonic seventh chord in a major key is a major seventh (M7) chord?
View answer and explanationIn what context do the less common diatonic seventh chords, such as III7 and VI7, most often appear?
View answer and explanationWhat is the reason for raising scale degree 6 in a minor key to form the #viø7 chord?
View answer and explanationThe tonic seventh chord (I7 or i7) typically resolves to a chord that contains which scale degree?
View answer and explanationIn a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence using inverted seventh chords, which two types of inversions can alternate with each other?
View answer and explanationWhat is the typical resolution for the mediant seventh chord (iii7)?
View answer and explanationIn a three-part circle-of-fifths sequence of seventh chords, what is the most common voicing for the chords?
View answer and explanationWhat is the quality of the subdominant seventh chord in a minor key when scale degree 6 is raised?
View answer and explanationIn a freer texture like piano music, what voice-leading issue is sometimes seen in a vi7-ii7 progression that might be avoided in stricter counterpoint?
View answer and explanationWhat is the chord quality of the diatonic mediant seventh chord (built on scale degree 3) in a major key?
View answer and explanationApart from the bass in a root-position circle-of-fifths sequence, how do the upper voices generally move from one seventh chord to the next?
View answer and explanationWhat general principle about triad function is stated in the chapter summary regarding the addition of a seventh?
View answer and explanationThe tonic seventh chord in its diatonic form in a minor key is what type of chord?
View answer and explanationHow can the parallel 5ths that may arise from a iv7 to V progression be corrected?
View answer and explanationWhat is the quality of the submediant seventh chord (built on scale degree 6) in a minor key?
View answer and explanationAccording to the summary, what scale should be used as the basis for line movement when writing in a minor key?
View answer and explanationWhat is the typical harmonic goal of the vi7 and VIM7 chords?
View answer and explanationIn a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence using inverted seventh chords, what is the other possible alternating pattern besides 6/5 and 4/2 chords?
View answer and explanationWhen a tonic seventh chord is analyzed, the 7th of the chord can often be interpreted as what type of nonchord tone?
View answer and explanationHow does the #viø7 chord typically resolve when it moves to a vii˚ chord?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary voice-leading rule that must be followed for nearly all diatonic seventh chords discussed in the chapter?
View answer and explanationIn the context of a metric device known as hemiola, how might a measure in 3/4 time sound?
View answer and explanationWhat is the quality of the minor-major seventh chord, a rare form of the tonic seventh in minor?
View answer and explanationWhen a subdominant seventh chord resolves to ii7, what is the primary voice motion?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, which of the diatonic seventh chords are much less commonly used in traditional tonal music?
View answer and explanationWhat is the quality of the #viø7 chord, which is formed in a minor key when scale degree 6 is raised before moving to a raised 7?
View answer and explanationWhen a tonic seventh chord (I7) resolves to a IV chord, what happens to the leading tone (scale degree 7), which is the 7th of the I7 chord?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary difference in voice leading between a four-part root-position circle-of-fifths sequence and one in three parts?
View answer and explanationWhich statement best describes the use of the #viø7 chord in relation to V6/5?
View answer and explanationIn the chapter's examples of the tonic seventh chord by Robert and Clara Schumann (Ex. 15-13 and 15-14), how is the 7th of the chord approached?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key principle from the summary regarding the resolution of seventh chords that is sometimes delayed?
View answer and explanationWhat is the diatonic quality of the subdominant seventh chord (built on scale degree 4) in a major key?
View answer and explanationLike their parent triads, the vi7 and VIM7 chords typically resolve to which two main chord functions on their way to the dominant?
View answer and explanationWhy does the minor-major seventh chord on the tonic of a minor key (iM7) rarely appear in the tonal tradition?
View answer and explanationIn a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence, what is the consequence of the voice-leading principles on the texture?
View answer and explanationWhat is the quality of the diatonic seventh chord built on the submediant (scale degree 6) in a major key?
View answer and explanationAccording to the summary, because more seventh-chord types are possible in minor than in major, what must the movement of individual lines in minor usually conform to?
View answer and explanationThe resolution of the vi7-ii7 progression in Chopin's Ballade op. 38 (Ex. 15-8) is notable for containing what feature that is less common in stricter styles?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary reason the IV7 chord in minor, despite being a major-minor seventh, does not have a dominant function?
View answer and explanationIf a composer wants to use the #viø7 chord to pass to V6/5, what melodic motion is required?
View answer and explanationWhat does the summary list as the primary exception to the rule that adding a 7th does not change a triad's function?
View answer and explanationIn the Corelli example (Ex. 15-16), a circle-of-fifths sequence is used. What type of seventh chord is used for the mediant harmony?
View answer and explanationWhat is the reason that the resolution of a seventh chord is sometimes delayed, as in the progression iv7 - i6/4 - V?
View answer and explanationThe resolution of the #viø7 chord in minor is smoothest to which inversion of the vii˚ chord?
View answer and explanationIn a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence in root position, if the first chord is complete, what will the second chord be?
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