1st Inversions
This is the specific term for a triad where the third of the chord is in the bass.
What is first inversion?
This is the specific term for a triad where the fifth of the chord is in the bass.
What is second inversion?
This is the specific chord tone of the V7 chord that is in the bass when the chord is in its third inversion.
What is the seventh (or chordal seventh)?
What is an F chord in F major?
What is the I?
In the key of C major, this specific note would be the bass note of a first inversion I chord.
What is E?
In the key of F major, this specific note would be the bass note of a second inversion I chord.
What is C?
This is the simplified figured bass symbol used to denote a third inversion seventh chord, representing the intervals of a fourth and a second above the bass.
What is 4/2 (or 2)?
What is Bb/D in F major?
What is the IV6?
A first inversion chord is often represented by this figured bass numeral, indicating the intervals of a sixth and a thirdabove the bass note.
What is 6?
A second inversion chord is typically represented by this figured bass numeral, indicating the intervals of a sixth and a fourth above the bass note.
What is 6/4?
In the key of A major, this specific note (and scale degree) would be the bass note of the V24 chord.
What is G?
What is the Bb/F in F major?
IV6/4
Name the three notes, in any order, that form a first inversion I chord in the key of E-flat major.
What are G, E-flat, and B-flat?
Name the three notes, in any order, that form a second inversion I chord in the key of B-flat major.
What are F, B-flat, and D (or F, D, and B-flat)?
When a V4/2 chord resolves to a I chord, the bass line must move down by step from the seventh of the V7 to the third of the I chord, resulting in the tonic chord being in this specific inversion.
What is first inversion (I6)?
What is the letters for the inversion of V6/5 in F major?
what is C/E7?
When moving directly from a V chord to a I6 chord, this tendency tone must resolve upward to the root of the tonic chord, despite being in the bass of the I6.
What is the leading tone or the 7?
Which of the three primary triad members (root, third, or fifth) is doubled most often in a second inversion triad to create stable voice leading?
What is the fifth?
The dissonance that defines the V4/2 chord comes from the interval of a second created between the bass note and this other, very close chord tone.
What is the root of the V7 chord?
What is the letters for the inversion V4/3 in F major?
What is C/G7?