Saturday, May 13, 2017

Hit Song Ingredient: Harmonic Chain, example


This is a nice example of Harmonic Chain:


Going to a Town - George Mochael
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZJQjn3jV8


Harmonic Chain means the bass increases by 4 scale steps many consecutive times.


The sevenths are prepared and the third is added every time.


Harmonic chain can be seen in the transcription of The Oboe Concerto in D minor , 2nd movement - Marcello by J.S. Bach.


Reference :


Instructions for Playing Figured Bass - J. S. Bach (can be found at the appendix of the Bach's biography by Spitta). (Also called Percepts and Principles...or The Art of Music - J.S. Bach)

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