NONHARMONIC TONES

This page is a list of excerpts, to be used as a resource for teachers and professors, illustrating noharmonic tones.

Also check out the page for a nonharmonic tone game!

NEIGHBOR TONES

Upper Gruber: Silent Night Sally Fletcher, harp
Upper & Lower Vivaldi: Spring I from The Four Seasons
Lower Beethoven: Fur Elise
Lower Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez: II
Lower Attributed to Bach: Toccata in D minor

Upper Bizet: "Toreador" from Carmen
Upper Leoncavallo: "Vesti la Giubba" from I Pagliacci Placido Domingo, tenor
Chrom. lower Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

PASSING TONES

Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite in D End of excerpt
Chrom. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, Kv 467: II

ANTICIPATIONS

Bach: Air from Orchstral Suite in D
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Beethoven: Sonata Op 49 No 2: II, Tempo di Minuetto beginning of excerpt
Chopin: Marche Funebre

SUSPENSIONS

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Winter: II 4 - 3
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Winter: III 7 - 6
Bocherini: Minuet 4 - 3
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nacht Musik: I 4 - 3
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez: II 9 - 8 and 4 - 3

RETARDATIONS

Mozart: Minuet
Attr. to Hasse: Polonaise from Notebook for A M Bach
DeBenedetti: The Spanish Steps from A Dozen Italian Diversions James Ferla, Guitar

APPOGGIATURAS

Leoncavallo: "Vesti la Giubba" from I Pagliacci Placido Domingo, tenor
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusk: I
Sousa: Semper Fi
Brahms: Symphony No. 3: III

CHANGING TONES (NEIGHBOR GROUPS)

PEDAL TONES (Large speakers needed to hear the bass)

ESCAPE TONES