AP® Music Theory · Unit 4 · Topic 4.2
Connecting Chords with Common Tones
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- How it worksHow do you hold common tones and move the remaining voices to the nearest chord tone?
- How it worksWalk me through connecting I to V to I in C major with the smoothest possible motion.
- Worked exampleFind the four-part setting of ii to V in F major where every upper voice moves by step or less.
- Going furtherWhat changes when two chords a third apart share two common tones instead of one?
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Two triads built on scale degrees a third apart share two common tones out of three. If 4 such third-related chord pairs occur in a progression, how many total common-tone connections does the progression contain, two per pair?End of topic.