Approaching fifths or octaves by similar motion can produce the same effect as approaching fifths or octaves by parallel motion. Adding a passing tone to a hidden fifth produces a parallel fifth, for example. Since the parallel fifth is implied by a missing note, approaching fifths or octaves by similar motion is called hidden fifths or octaves
Hidden octaves
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Hidden fifths
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Approaching fifths or octaves by similar motion can produce the same effect as approaching fifths or octaves by parallel moti…
Circle of fifths
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chain of intervals. each interval a fifth, after passing through every note of the scale returns to a note, several octaves d…
Parallel motion
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when two parts move the same interval in the same direction at the same time
Similar motion
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when parts move in the same direction but not necessarily by the same interval
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Exposed intervals
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hidden fifths or octaves between the outer voices in a harmonic progression
Monotone
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a single sustained, unvarying tone, or a succession of notes of the same tone
Parallel intervals
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the movement in two or more parts of the same intervals in the same direction