Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Minor key series, part 11 (progressions k-n)

Here are examples of more complex ascending figures, this time shown in four part textures. All of these are hypothetical in the sense that, although they are possible "mechanically," I have not yet found examples in the repertoire.

In figures k and l, the melodic line is completely chromatic. The underlying harmony in figure k is relatively simple, in figure l rather less so.



Figures m and n are variants of the fully chromatic line. In figure m, the chromatic ascent is interrupted for the sake of introducing a cadential 6/4 chord. Figure n varies figure k but at the cost of undermining the fully chromatic line (the first five chords prolong i and support a neighbor-note figure, ^5-^6-^5).