Common tone (chord)

In music, a common tone is a pitch class that is a member of, or common to (shared by) two or more chords or sets. Typically, it refers to a note shared between two chords in a chord progression. According to H.E. Woodruff:

Any tone contained in two successive chords is a common tone. Chords written upon two consecutive degrees of the [diatonic] scale can have no tones in common. All other chords [in the diatonic scale] have common tones. Common tones are also called connecting tones, and in part-writing, are to be retained in the same voice. Chords which are four or five degrees apart have one common tone. Chords which are three or six degrees apart have two common tones. Chords which are one or seven degrees apart have no tone in common. (Woodruff 1899, p. 61)

The example below shows the seven diatonic triads of C major. The common tones between the tonic triad and the other six triads are highlighted in blue. As Woodruff describes, the tonic triad shares no common tones with either II and VII (consecutive to I), one common tone with IV and V (four and five degrees from I) each, and two common tones with III and VI (three and six degrees from I) each.


{
\override Score.TimeSignature
#'stencil = ##f
\relative c' { 
      \time 1/1
      \once \override NoteHead.color = #blue <c e g>1 \bar "||"
      \time 2/1
      <d f a> 
      <b d f>
      <\tweak color #blue c f a> 
      <b d \tweak color #blue g>
      <b \tweak color #blue e \tweak color #blue g>
      <\tweak color #blue c \tweak color #blue e a> \bar "||"
   }
   \addlyrics { I II VII IV V III VI }
}

In voice leading

Common tones are a consideration in voice leading and voicing. Abbé Vogler (1749–1814), Weber (1779–1839), Hauptmann (1792–1868), A. B. Marx (1795–1866), and earlier theorists emphasized "common-tone retention and smooth voice leading in... [their] treatment[s] of harmonic succession [chord progressions]" (Engebretson 2008, p. 109). It may be considered a guideline or a rule (Klauser 1890, p. 202).

The example below shows a circle progression in C major, in which common tones are retained in the second voice (alto).


    {
      \new PianoStaff <<
        \new Staff <<
            \new Voice \relative c' {
                \clef treble \time 4/4
                \stemUp e2 f d e c d b c
                }
            \new Voice \relative c' {
                \stemDown c2 c b b a a g g
                }
            >>
        \new Staff <<
            \new Voice \relative c' {
                \clef bass \time 4/4
                \stemUp g2 a f g e f d e 
                }
            \new Voice \relative c {
                \stemDown c f, b e, a d, g c,
                }
            >>
    >> }

Common-tone diminished seventh chord

A diminished seventh chord may resolve to a chord whose root is common to both chords (e.g. iio7 resolves to I6). When this happens, the first chord is called a common-tone diminished seventh chord.


{
\override Score.TimeSignature
#'stencil = ##f
\time 4/4 
\relative c' { 
      <dis a' c fis>1 <e g c g'>
   }
}

See also

References

  • Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I. Seventh Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0
  • Diller, Angela (1921). First Theory Book. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc. [ISBN unspecified].
  • Engebretson, Nora (2008). "The 'Over-Determined' Triad as a Source of Discord: Nascent Groups and the Emergent Chromatic Tonality in Nineteenth-Century German Harmonic Theory". In Music Theory and Mathematics, edited by Jack Moser Douthett, Martha M. Hyde, and Charles J. Smith, 107–36. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580462662.
  • Klauser, Julius (1890). The Septonate and the Centralization of the Tonal System. W. Rohlfing. [ISBN unspecified].
  • Woodruff, H. Estelle (1899). Woodruff's Comprehensive Music Course. H.E. Woodruff. [ISBN unspecified].

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