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of the scale can have no tones in common. All other chords have common tones. Common tones are also called connecting tones, and in part-writing, are to be retained in the same voice. Chords which are four or five degrees apart have one common tone. Chords which are three or six degrees apart have
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Engebretson, Nora (2008). "The 'Over-Determined' Triad as a Source of Discord: Nascent Groups and the Emergent Chromatic Tonality in Nineteenth-Century German Harmonic Theory". In
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triad and the other six triads are highlighted in blue. As Woodruff describes, the tonic triad shares
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Any tone contained in two successive chords is a common tone. Chords written upon two consecutive
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two common tones. Chords which are one or seven degrees apart have no tone in common. (
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in C major, in which common tones are retained in the second voice (alto).
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common tone with IV and V (four and five degrees from I) each, and
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ii resolves to I). When this happens, the first chord is called a
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common tones with III and VI (three and six degrees from I) each.
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may resolve to a chord whose root is common to both chords (e.g.
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that is a member of, or common to (shared by) two or more
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The Septonate and the Centralization of the Tonal System
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common tones with either II and VII (consecutive to I),
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Common-tone modulation
Common tone (scale)
music
pitch class
chords
sets
note
chord progression
degrees
Woodruff 1899
diatonic triads
C major
tonic
voice leading
voicing
Abbé Vogler
Weber
Hauptmann
A. B. Marx
Engebretson 2008
Klauser 1890
circle progression
download the audio file
diminished seventh chord
common-tone diminished seventh chord
download the audio file
Approach chord
Common chord (music)
Walkdown
ISBN

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