Changing tones
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neighbor tones; an upper neighbor and a lower neighbor with the chord tone missing from the middle. The changing tone functions as a way to decorate, or embellish, a chord tone and are also used to provide rhythmic interest between common tones. In rare instances, changing tones can be heard as musical cryptograms, such as the cruciform melody
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References
- ^ Lobe, Johann Christian (1891). Catechism of Composition: By J. C. Lobe. G. Schirmer. pp. 63–65.
- ISBN 978-0-19-999955-2.
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