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17.7: Practice Exercises

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    17.7 Practice Exercises

    Day One:

    1.

    Approach each chord with its secondary dominant seventh chord (whose root lies a perfect 5th above the root of the chord of resolution). Label chords with Roman numerals below and lead–sheet symbols above.

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-approaching-exer.svg

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-approaching-exer2.svg

    Answer.

    2.

    Analyze the following secondary dominants. Include lead-sheet symbols above.

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-analyzing.svg

    Answer.

    3.

    On the empty staff below, copy the notes from the upper staff to the lower staff while adding the specified non–chord tones. (Note: LNT = lower neighbor tone; UNT = upper neighbor tone.) Realize the lead–sheet symbols using quarter–note accompanimental texture. Below the lower staff, analyze the chords using Roman numerals with figured bass inversion symbols.

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-NCT-realization.svg

    Answer.

    Day Two:

    4.

    Write the following secondary dominants. Include lead-sheet symbols above. Include key signatures.

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-writing.svg

    Answer.

    5.

    For the following example, alter the given motives as specified. Add an accompanimental texture of afterbeats. Analyze the Roman numerals with figured bass inversion symbols below the staff.

    PRAC-EXER-sec-dom-motivic-completion.svg

    Answer.

    Click here to download the first homework assignment for this chapter. Click here to download the second homework assignment for this chapter. PDF versions of the textbook, homework exercises, and practice exercises can be found at musictheory.pugetsound.edu


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