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In Galant schemata, a Prinner’s longer third stage often features this non-chord tone in an upper voice. In Fenaroli’s rules of partimento, these are the only dissonances, which Vincenzo Galilei called “essential.” The second movement (15[1])of Corelli’s Christmas Concerto continuously chains these dissonances. Two voices in (15[1])oblique motion are staggered by a half-bar syncope in fourth-species counterpoint, which is based on these dissonances that Fux called “ligature.” Figured basses may (15[1])notate these dissonances with a (*) horizontal line between two numbers. (10[2])Unlike retardations, which resolve upward, and appoggiaturas, which approach unprepared by leap, these on-beat non-chord tones prolong or repeat a prior note, resolve down by step, and come (10[1])in (10[1])9–8 or 4–3 types. (10[1])A triad’s third (10[1])is displaced for a fourth or second in chords of this name. For 10 points, (10[2])what chords with (10[1])an open, quartal sound and 3-letter pop-music abbreviation may hang before (10[1])belatedly resolving? ■END■

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