HARMONIC EXPANSIONS
CHAPTER 2: NONHARMONIC TONES
2.2 Neighbor Tones
Antonio Vivaldi of Venice |
In the video above, from The Four Seasons (the third movement of Spring), Vivaldi expanded the initial tonic with, among other things, neighbor tones (NT).
On pages 1.2 and 1.4 a neighbor tone was described as a kind of embellishing tone which expanded the primordial tonic. In this chapter, neighbor tones are a kind of nonharmonic tone. In either case they are approached by a chord tone by step and then go back to the original note. | |
Play the video and watch the harmonies grow! |
Neighbor tones can expand any chord of the fundamental harmonic progression. For instance in the video to the left
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