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May 23, 2022 By Aron Bernstein Leave a Comment

Weekly Music Challenge: 5/23/22

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 counterpoint, describe the difference between the double neighbor and the cambiata.

Post your reply and come back Friday, May 27th for the answer!

ANSWER for 5/23/22

The double neighbor and cambiata are closely related as non-harmonic tones. They both involve two neighbor tones and skip away from a dissonance. But a double neighbor returns to the chord tone it started on, while the cambiata does not. Watch the video clip at right:

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