| Essay on the True Manner of Playing the Clavier Zweyter Teil | Part II |
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| 6. Capitel. Vom Sextquartenaccord 1. Abschnitt. |
Chapter 6. On the 6/4 chord Section 1. |
| Die reine Quarte dissonirt zwar bey unserer Aufgabe am wenigsten, demohngeachtet aber muß sie dennoch aufgelöset werden, wenn sie nicht im Durchgange vorkommt. | The perfect fourth in this context is the least dissonant, but nevertheless must be resolved, unless it occurs as a passing tone. |
| In modern usage, a passing tone must be approached and left by step in the same direction. As shown in Ex. II:101, though, Bach uses the term more freely to refer to tones approached and left by step in opposite directions (i.e., neighbor tones), as well as arpeggios. | |
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