{"id":1499,"date":"2010-11-05T05:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:00:05","slug":"find-the-parallel-5ths-in-bach-choral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Find the Parallel 5ths in Bach Choral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s a music theory puzzle for today’s post.  This one comes from J.S. Bach’s setting of Freuet euich, ihr Christen alle<\/em>.  The workbook assignment I gave my music theory students asked them to write a roman numeral analysis of the harmony (in F minor, not according to the key signature) and spot and label the non-chord-tones.  What tripped me up was finding the parallel 5ths that Bach uses in this excerpt.  It took me quite a while to find them.  See you can can spot them.  The answer after the break.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This was tricky, because Bach hides them aurally by using an anticipation non-chord tone.  Visually it’s also disguised, since the soprano is holding out a G before the tenor moves to the C a perfect 5th below.  When the tenor and soprano move to the perfect 5th interval of Bb and F Bach used parallel 5ths, usually avoided in Common Practice harmonic language.  Bach used this particular method of disguising parallel 5ths with an anticipation non-chord-tone several times in his music, although he usually avoided them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Did you spot it?  Did I make any mistakes in my analysis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extra credit to any of my Music Theory students who read this!  I’ll give you +5 points on this homework assignment if you post your comment on this page before I hand back your homework on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a music theory puzzle for today’s post.  This one comes from J.S. Bach’s setting of Freuet euich, ihr Christen alle.  The workbook assignment I gave my music theory students asked them to write a roman numeral analysis of the harmony (in F minor, not according to the key signature) and spot and label the … Continue reading Find the Parallel 5ths in Bach Choral<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-ob","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}