Other Diatonic Seventh Chords

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Question 1

How does adding a seventh to the tonic triad affect its function in traditional tonal music?

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Question 2

What is the typical chord progression involving the subdominant seventh chord (IV7 or iv7)?

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Question 3

What 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?

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Question 4

What is the typical harmonic function of the #viø7 chord in a minor key?

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Question 5

What voice-leading rule governs a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence using root position seventh chords?

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Question 6

Which diatonic seventh chord in a major key is a major seventh (M7) chord?

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Question 7

In what context do the less common diatonic seventh chords, such as III7 and VI7, most often appear?

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Question 8

What is the reason for raising scale degree 6 in a minor key to form the #viø7 chord?

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Question 9

The tonic seventh chord (I7 or i7) typically resolves to a chord that contains which scale degree?

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Question 10

In a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence using inverted seventh chords, which two types of inversions can alternate with each other?

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Question 11

What is the typical resolution for the mediant seventh chord (iii7)?

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Question 12

In a three-part circle-of-fifths sequence of seventh chords, what is the most common voicing for the chords?

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Question 13

What is the quality of the subdominant seventh chord in a minor key when scale degree 6 is raised?

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Question 14

In 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?

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Question 15

What is the chord quality of the diatonic mediant seventh chord (built on scale degree 3) in a major key?

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Question 16

Apart 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?

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Question 17

What general principle about triad function is stated in the chapter summary regarding the addition of a seventh?

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Question 18

The tonic seventh chord in its diatonic form in a minor key is what type of chord?

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Question 19

How can the parallel 5ths that may arise from a iv7 to V progression be corrected?

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Question 20

What is the quality of the submediant seventh chord (built on scale degree 6) in a minor key?

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Question 21

According to the summary, what scale should be used as the basis for line movement when writing in a minor key?

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Question 22

What is the typical harmonic goal of the vi7 and VIM7 chords?

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Question 23

In 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?

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Question 24

When a tonic seventh chord is analyzed, the 7th of the chord can often be interpreted as what type of nonchord tone?

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Question 25

How does the #viø7 chord typically resolve when it moves to a vii˚ chord?

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Question 26

What is the primary voice-leading rule that must be followed for nearly all diatonic seventh chords discussed in the chapter?

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Question 27

In the context of a metric device known as hemiola, how might a measure in 3/4 time sound?

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Question 28

What is the quality of the minor-major seventh chord, a rare form of the tonic seventh in minor?

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Question 29

When a subdominant seventh chord resolves to ii7, what is the primary voice motion?

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Question 30

According to the chapter, which of the diatonic seventh chords are much less commonly used in traditional tonal music?

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Question 31

What 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?

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Question 32

When 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?

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Question 33

What is the primary difference in voice leading between a four-part root-position circle-of-fifths sequence and one in three parts?

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Question 34

Which statement best describes the use of the #viø7 chord in relation to V6/5?

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Question 35

In 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?

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Question 36

What is the key principle from the summary regarding the resolution of seventh chords that is sometimes delayed?

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Question 37

What is the diatonic quality of the subdominant seventh chord (built on scale degree 4) in a major key?

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Question 38

Like their parent triads, the vi7 and VIM7 chords typically resolve to which two main chord functions on their way to the dominant?

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Question 39

Why does the minor-major seventh chord on the tonic of a minor key (iM7) rarely appear in the tonal tradition?

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Question 40

In a four-part circle-of-fifths sequence, what is the consequence of the voice-leading principles on the texture?

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Question 41

What is the quality of the diatonic seventh chord built on the submediant (scale degree 6) in a major key?

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Question 42

According 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?

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Question 43

The 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?

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Question 44

What is the primary reason the IV7 chord in minor, despite being a major-minor seventh, does not have a dominant function?

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Question 45

If a composer wants to use the #viø7 chord to pass to V6/5, what melodic motion is required?

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Question 46

What does the summary list as the primary exception to the rule that adding a 7th does not change a triad's function?

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Question 47

In the Corelli example (Ex. 15-16), a circle-of-fifths sequence is used. What type of seventh chord is used for the mediant harmony?

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Question 48

What is the reason that the resolution of a seventh chord is sometimes delayed, as in the progression iv7 - i6/4 - V?

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Question 49

The resolution of the #viø7 chord in minor is smoothest to which inversion of the vii˚ chord?

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Question 50

In 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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