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How do passing tones improve voice leading?
By ensuring stepwise motion between chord tones.
What is a crucial consideration when adding passing tones?
Ensuring that the chord tones fall on the harmonic beat.
What are embellishments in music?
Notes or figures added to a melody to enhance expression and complexity.
What are non-chord tones?
Notes that do not belong to the underlying harmony of a chord.
Define a passing tone.
A non-chord tone that connects two chord tones by stepwise motion.
What is a neighbor tone?
A non-chord tone that steps away from a chord tone and then returns to it.
What is a diatonic passing tone?
A passing tone that occurs within the key's scale.
What is a chromatic passing tone?
A passing tone that is outside the key's scale.
What is an upper neighbor tone?
A neighbor tone that moves a step above the chord tone and returns.
What is a lower neighbor tone?
A neighbor tone that moves a step below the chord tone and returns.
Define 'preparation' in the context of non-chord tones.
The chord tone that precedes a non-chord tone.
Define 'resolution' in the context of non-chord tones.
The chord tone that follows a non-chord tone.
What is ornamentation in music?
The addition of decorations to a melody or harmony to add complexity and expression.
What is a trill?
A rapid alternation between two notes, usually the main note and the note above or below it.
In C Major, what's a diatonic passing tone between C and E?
D
In C Major, what's a chromatic passing tone between C and D?
C#
Give an example of an upper neighbor tone on C.
C-D-C
Give an example of a lower neighbor tone on C.
C-B-C