Section II, Part A (No Aural Stimulus)

Question 1

section ii, part a (no aural stimulus)

Answer 1

• guidelines
• • avoid voice leading problems
• – parallel fifths and octaves
• – beat to beat fifths and octaves
• – fifths and octaves
• – unequal fifths
• — only acceptable in a rising d5-P5 in I–
• — any other rising d5-Pd- is unacceptable
• — rising P5-d5 is acceptable
• – hidden fifths
• — step to fifth is ok
• — leap to fifth is not
• – no overlapping voices or voice crossings

Question 2

examples of questions

Answer 2

• realize the figured bass below in four voices, following traditional eighteenth-century voice-leading procedure. continue logically form the spacing of the first chord
• • do not add embellishments unless they ask
• • supply the roman numeral that appropriately indicates harmonic function
• sometimes they will supply the bass line and other times they will supply the roman numerals, work accordingly
• • do bass line first, then melody moving in contrary motion, then fill in the remaining voices
• keep it simple, “boring is beautiful”
• only leap when you have to
• start with last note and work backward
• the last question will have the first half of the question filled in (they will provide soprano, bass, and roman numeral). you fill in the second half
• • fill in the cadence points
• • write in bass line and chord structure based on what you see
• • take your time