Embellishing Tones Lesson 1

 Embellishing Tones

  • When embellishing a suspension, decorate the dissonant suspended tone rather than the tone of resolution.
  • When writing a suspension in three or more voices, plan the doubling in the chord of resolution first, so that the resolved note isn't doubled in that chord. 9-8 suspensions are an exception to the rule.
  • Passing and Neighbor tones can be written in any voice and are usually accented in loud four parts.
  • Embellishing Tones pitches form outside the underlying harmony decorating chords tones using passing tones, neighbor tones, or suspensions. 


Non-Chordal Tones


































Below is  a video of me performing the above piece with and without embellishing tones.

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