Re: Toccata in Dmin

In article <NlYYe.2024$kH3.1732@trnddc01>,
Steve Latham <llatham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> If D is in the bass the whole time, aren't they all D chords?
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>Depends on the context Bonnie. Sometimes the bass note becomes a non chord
>tone called a Pedal Tone (from the long held notes on the Pedal keyboard of
>organs that were popular in these types of pieces - on ^5 it's called a
>"Dominant Pedal" - the most common, on ^1 it'a Tonic Pedal (the next most
>common I'd wager).

But in baroque music, a pedal tone is more often a prolongation of
a single harmony, with non-harmonic motion in the OTHER voices--a
device carried forth in church music from its invention at the Cathedral
of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1200s by the Perotin school.


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