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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pedal point
The pedal tone is considered a chord tone in the original harmony, then a nonchord tone during the intervening dissonant harmonies, and then a chord tone again when the harmony resolves.
A nonchord tone or non-harmony note is a tone in a piece of homophonic music which is not in the chord that is formed by the other tones playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
A pedal point may be a nonchord tone and thus required to resolve, unlike a drone, or a pedal point may simply be a shorter drone, a drone being a longer pedal point.
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  Nonchord tone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A nonchord tone, nonharmonic tone, or non-harmony note is a note in a piece of music which is not a part of the chord that is formed by the other notes sounding at the time.
Nonchord tones are most often discussed in the context of music of the common practice period, but can be used in analysis of other types of tonal music as well.
A passing tone or passing note is the nonchord tone of a part which had started at one chord tone and moved up or down through one or more nonchord tones and resolved to another chord tone (possibly of another chord, often of the same chord).
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 Facts about nonchord tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A nonchord tone is a tone in a piece of homophonic music which is not in the chord that is formed by the other tones playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
A neighbor tone or auxilliary note is a nonchord tone which is preceded by a chord tone directly above or below it and followed by the same tone.
A passing tone or passing note is the nonchord tone of a part which had started at one chord tone and moved up or down through one (or more) nonchord tone and resolving to another chord tone.
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  Nonchord tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A nonchord tone is a tone in a piece of homophonic music which is not in the chord that is formed by the other tones playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
Since nonchord tones are dissonance s, in common practice they are allowed only as suspension s, anticipation s, passing tones, and upper and lower neighbor tones which then resolve.
A passing tone or passing note is the nonchord tone of a part which had started at one chord tone and moved up or down through one (or more) nonchord tone and resolving to another chord tone.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A nonchord tone, nonharmonic tone, or non-harmony note is a note in a piece of music which is not a part of the chord that is formed by the other notes sounding at the time.
Nonchord tones are most often discussed in the context of music of the common practice period, but can be used in analysis of other types of tonal music as well.
A nonchord tone is a dissonance and is required to resolve to a chord tone in conventional ways.
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 Nonchord tone
Since nonchord tones are dissonances, in common practice they are allowed only as suspensionss, anticipations, passing tones, and upper and lower neighbor tones which then resolve.
Another form of nonchord tones are pedal tones, or notes, almost always the tonic or dominant, which are held past the chord in which they originated.
A suspended chord is an added tone chord with a "suspended" fourth or second as an added tone which doesn't resolve.
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 Nonchord tone - Definition, explanation
A nonchord tone is a dissonance and is required to resolve to a chord tone in conventional ways.
While it is theoretically possible that for a three-note chord there are (in equal temperament) nine possible nonchord tones, nonchord tones are usually in the prevailing key.
Another form of nonchord tone is a pedal point or pedal tone or note, almost always the tonic or dominant, which is held through a series of chord changes.
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 Bambooweb: Nonchord tone
A nonchord tone is a tone in a piece of homophonic music which is not in the chord that is formed by the other tones playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
Since nonchord tones are dissonances, in common practice they are allowed only as suspensions, anticipations, passing tones, and upper and lower neighbor tones which then resolve.
A passing tone or passing note is the nonchord tone of a part which had started at one chord tone and moved up or down through one (or more) nonchord tone and resolving to another chord tone.
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 Nonchord tone
Since nonchord tones are dissonances, in common practice they are allowed only as suspensions, anticipations, passing tones, and upper and lower neighbor tones which then resolve.
An escape tone is a stepwise motion in the opposite direction of the harmonic motion in that voice:
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nonchord tone
In practice and analysis, neighbouring tones are often differentiated depending upon whether or not they are lower or higher than the chord tones surrounding them.
A neighbouring tone that is a step higher than the surrounding chord tones is called an upper neighbouring tone or an upper auxiliary note whereas a neighbouring tone that is a step lower than the surrounding chord tones is a lower neighbouring tone or lower auxiliary note.
An escape tone or echappée is a movement by step in the opposite direction of the harmonic motion in that voice and is resolved by leap in the direction of harmonic motion:
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 Electronic musical instruments having automatic ensemble function - Patent 4499808
The ensemble tone forming data to be stored in the memory device may be data representing th interval between the depressed key tone and the ensemble tone or may be data directly representing the tone pitch or note name of the ensemble tone.
Where the accompaniment chord (lower keyboard tone) is a diatonic chord and the melody tone (upper keyboard tone) is a diatonic scale note, a tone which is a predetermined degree spaced from the melody tone is produced as the duet tone.
The seventh tone of the A minor tonality was taken as the major seventh tone G.music-sharp., this is because a harmonic minor scale was adopted as the minor scale in the embodiment shown in FIG.
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 How To Improvise
Another good way to hear tones in your mind is to play a chord and try to imagine musical tones and and then sing them.
A nonchord tone appears as the second note in measure 2.
This nonchord tone is called a passing tone because it passes between two chord tones.
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 Chord (music)
Every chord is given a specific name, based on the notes that constitute the chord and the distances, or intervals, between them.
Music is said to be chord-based when the melody is determined by the chords and not by melodic concerns such as modal frames.
A nonchord tone is a dissonant or unstable tone which is not a part of the chord that is currently playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
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 Functional Analysis
-There can be more than one passing tone in a row.
-Non chord tone that becomes the next chord tone
Authentic Cadence- When a V goes to I
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 Solomon's Music Glossary
Often cadences are associated with harmonic or melodic formulae; e.g., an authentic cadence is a stop with the chords V to I. A "Landini cadence" is a melodic formula that proceeds as 8-7-7-6-8 (scale degrees).
These are difference tones that are heard as beats, rather than as "tones".
[5] (Schenker: initiating tone) a tone of the tonic (3,5, or 8) that initiates a descent in the Urlinie.
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 Sparco Pedals -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pedal point (also pedal tone, organ point, or just pedal) is a musical term describing any sustained or repeated note, usually in the bass, with changing harmonies in the other voices.
The pedal tone is considered a chord tone in the original harmony, then a nonchord tone during the intervening dissonant harmonies, and then a chord tone again when the harmony resolves.
A pedal point may be a nonchord tone and thus required to resolve, unlike a drone, or a pedal point may simply be a shorter drone, a drone being a longer pedal point.
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 Anticipation_(music) - Thagodz Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A neighbour tone or auxiliary note is a nonchord tone which is preceded by a chord tone directly above or below it and resolves to the same tone:
A neighbouring tone that is a step higher than the surrounding chord tones is called an upper neighbouring tone or an upper auxiliary note whereas a neighbouring tone that is a step lower than the surrounding chord tones is a lower neighbouring tone or lower auxiliary note.
A passing tone or passing note is the nonchord tone of a part which had started at one chord tone and moved up or down through one or more nonchord tones and resolved to another chord tone (possibly of another chord, often of the same chord).
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 Apparatus and method for generating melody - Patent 6100462   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The tone generator circuit 24 is not limited to a hardware structure exclusively functioning as a tone generator, but m ay be a combination of a DSP (digital signal processor) and a microprogram or a combination of a CPU and a software thereby functioning as a tone generator.
The chord tones here are the notes constituting a chord (for example C major chord) represented by the inputted chord data for the chord span "n", and may easily be obtained by using, for example, a conversion table which gives the chord tones from the chord data.
The chord tones are the notes which constitutes the chord designated for the chord span "n" under processing, while the nonchord tones are the notes other than the chord tones.
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 Nonchord tone: Encyclopedia II - Nonchord tone - Pedal point
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 WikiMiki.net - Polychord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Both absolute time (measurable length and speed) and relative time (proportion and division) must at all times be taken into account in harmonic thinking or analysis." Music is said to be chord-based when the melody is determined by the chords and not by melodic concerns such as modal frames.
A nonchord tone is a dissonant or unstable tone which is not a part of the chord that is currently playing and in most cases quickly resolves to a chord tone.
Because it uses lowered altered tones, this chord is often grouped with the borrowed chords.
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