Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · section 26 of 96

Disjunct Motion of the Thirds of Chords

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§ 26. — 1) The thirds of chords, moving melodically by a fourth or a fifth, may occur in the connections of the chords of the first and fourth degrees and of the first and fifth degrees in root position.

2) The harmonic connection is obligatory.

3) After the disjunct motion, proceed in the opposite direction by the interval of a second or a third:

Four examples in C major: the soprano leaps by a fourth or fifth from the third of one chord to the third of the next (I–V, V–I, I–IV, IV–I), then turns back by — Fig. 95 · See it in the reader