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May 3, 2022 By Aron Bernstein 2 Comments

Weekly Music Challenge: 5/2/22

Show off your theory chops with my weekly challenge! You’ll find a new question here every Monday. Please comment to post your reply.

This Week’s Challenge:

In this excerpt from Jules Massenet’s Vieille Chanson, what is the name of the non-harmonic tones at the red arrows?

Vieille Chanson, Op. 10, No. 7 by Jules Massenet
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Post your reply and come back Friday, May 6th for the answer!

ANSWER for 5/2/22

These are escape tones, also known as the échappée. They’re neighbor tones that do not return to the starting chord tone, but rather skip in the opposite direction to a new chord tone. For this reason they can also be thought of as a type of incomplete neighbor, leaping from a dissonance to a different chord tone from the one we started on. In this sense they’re the opposite of appoggiaturas, which leap to a dissonance.

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  1. Mike Hudson says

    May 3, 2022 at 11:17 am

    Escape tone – approached by step, resolved by leap in opposite direction.

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  2. Brian Monroe says

    May 3, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    ESP. Escape tones.

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