Suonata quarta: Fuga cromatica (L’organo suonarino, Op. 13)

6.3 Hear notes between the chords

Study Banchieri’s Suonata quarta (Fuga cromatica). Follow each entry of the subject, a long note and then a rising scale, through the voices, and hear the suspensions where a held note clashes and then resolves down by step (bars 5–7). Banchieri’s “cromatica” refers to the accidentals along the way, not to the subject. At the keyboard: resolve a suspension.

Ideas

• Non-chord tones
• Suspensions

Theory cards

• Notes outside the chord
• Pain is a stop sign

Technique

• D harmonic minor scale, hands separately, 2 octaves
• D minor broken triad, hands separately, 2 octaves