<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Professor Tymoczko,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing your findings on resolution-tone doublings. Although it's a bit of a different question, I am very curious to know what you would find in the Bach chorales about the contrapuntal practice of doubling the tone of resolution at the moment of resolution in 4-3 suspensions. This is something I was often advised to incorporate whenever possible when I was first learning counterpoint. To be more specific here's the situation I'm referring to:</div>
<div><br></div><div>An [0, 0, 5, 7] sonority passing through an [0, 2, 5, 7] before finally resolving to an [0, 4, 4, 7]</div><div><br></div><div>This could also occur without the intervening passing tone, i.e.: [0, 0, 5, 7] going to [0, 4, 4, 7].</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course the suspension could have been an augmented fourth to begin with which would be the same but with "6's" where my "5's" were above.</div><div><br></div><div>With minor triads, there would be two possibilities for the intervening passing tone:</div>
<div><br></div><div>[0, 0, 5, 7] passing through either an [0, 2, 5, 7] or an [0, 1, 5, 7] before resolving to an [0, 3, 3, 7].</div><div><br></div><div>The passing tone could be omitted as in the major. This would result in: [0, 0, 5, 7] going to [0, 3, 3, 7]</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm really the most interested in knowing about the situations with the intervening passing tones. I would appreciate any input you have.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>
Alexander Morgan</div><div><a href="mailto:alexander.morgan@mail.mcgill.ca" target="_blank">alexander.morgan@mail.mcgill.ca</a></div><div>McGill PhD Student</div></span>