Non-Chord Tones Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What distinguishes an anticipation from most other non-chord tones?
It connects two chord tones by step in one direction
It is held from the preceding chord and normally resolves downward by step
It arrives early as a non-chord tone, then becomes a chord tone when the harmony changes
It leaves a chord tone by step and returns to the same pitch
2. Which sequence describes a typical suspension?
Leap to a dissonance, followed by stepwise resolution
Preparation as a chord tone, continuation into a new harmony as a dissonance, then stepwise resolution
Early arrival of a note belonging to the next chord
Step away from a chord tone, followed by a leap in the opposite direction
3. Over a sustained G7 chord containing G-B-D-F, the melody moves G-A-B. What role does A play?
Lower neighboring tone
Anticipation
Pedal point
Passing tone
4. A bass note begins as a chord member, continues or repeats while the harmonies above it change, becomes non-chordal, and later fits the harmony again. What is this called?
Anticipation
Appoggiatura
Changing tone
Pedal point
5. How does a retardation differ from a typical suspension?
A retardation is unprepared, while a suspension is always approached by leap
A retardation arrives before the next harmony, while a suspension arrives after it
A retardation resolves upward by step, whereas a typical suspension resolves downward
A retardation must occur in the bass, whereas a suspension cannot
6. An F in the soprano belongs to an F-major chord. The harmony changes to C major while F is held, and the soprano then resolves to E over bass C. What is the F over the C-major chord?
An anticipation
A 4-3 suspension
An upper neighboring tone
An appoggiatura
7. What makes a passing tone accented rather than unaccented?
It moves downward rather than upward
It is chromatic rather than diatonic
It occurs in a metrically strong position while connecting chord tones stepwise
It is longer than both surrounding chord tones in every case
8. Over a sustained C-major harmony, a melody outlines C-D-B-C. Both D and B are non-chord tones surrounding C. What is this figure commonly called?
A double-neighbor or changing-tone figure
A chromatic passing figure
An appoggiatura pair
A suspension chain
9. In common-practice tonal analysis, what is a non-chord tone?
A chromatic note that must lead to a modulation
Any note that creates an audible dissonance, even when it belongs to the chord
A chord member placed above the melody rather than inside the accompaniment
A note outside the prevailing chord that decorates or connects harmonic tones
10. A C-major chord is sustained while the melody ascends C-D-E. How is D best classified?
Suspension
Upper neighboring tone
Anticipation
Passing tone
11. Over a sustained C-major chord, the melody moves E-F-E. What is F?
Upper neighboring tone
Accented passing tone
Retardation
Escape tone
12. A melody leaps from a chord tone to an accented non-chord tone and then resolves by step in the opposite direction. Which label fits best?
Escape tone
Appoggiatura
Retardation
Anticipation
13. Which pattern defines a neighboring tone?
It moves by step from a chord tone and then returns by step to that tone
It connects two different chord tones by step
It is approached and left by leaps in the same direction
It arrives before the chord to which it belongs
14. How is an escape tone typically approached and left?
Approached by leap and left by step in the opposite direction
Approached and left by step in the same direction
Approached by step and left by leap in the opposite direction
Approached as a repeated note and left by common tone
15. Which melodic motion most clearly defines a passing tone?
Stepwise motion between two different chord tones, continuing in the same direction
A step away from a chord tone followed by a return to that same tone
A leap to a non-chord tone followed by a step in the opposite direction
A repeated chord tone held until the harmony changes
16. The harmony is D major and will next move to G major. The melody moves from A to B just before the G-major chord begins, then holds B into that chord. How should the early B be classified?
Retardation
Anticipation
Escape tone
Passing tone