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Bass Lines and Harmonic Structure

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1 Bass Lines and Harmonic Structure
the nature of the lowest voice and its relation to harmonic structure

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6 Mozart, Sonata K. 545, ii The V4 3 on the 3rd beat provides harmonic variety, but it also serves to prolong the initial tonic harmony

7 Mozart, Sonata K. 545, ii The bass line in the first two mm. outlines an upper neighbor tone

8 Mozart, Sonata K. 545, ii The 64 chord in m. 3 is a neighboring 64 that prolongs the tonic

9 Mozart, Sonata K. 545, ii The common-tone diminished seventh chord on the 3rd beat creates incomplete neighbor chords (contrapuntal chords)

10 The reduction here shows the neighboring functions of the V43, IV64 and common-tone diminished chords It also analyzes the melody with stems and slurs

11 Mm. 5-6 display a continuation of the tonic prolongation

12 The neighboring V43 is repeated in m. 5

13 in m. 6, a motion from I through vi moves to I6— this is essentially the same motion as moving from I to I6

14 m. 7 shows intermediate harmony—a predominant function leading us to ...

15 A half cadence in m. 8 and the dominant

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17 Reminder The cadential 64 is just an intensified dominant

18 Reminder So don’t analyze it as a I64


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