A suspension figure, named by the interval above the bass and the interval it
resolves to.
A figure is reported only when the suspended note forms the interval the
figure names. A dissonance that resolves by step from anywhere else — a
retardation rising a semitone from the seventh to the octave, say — is left
unfigured rather than named after an interval it does not form.
A suspension figure, named by the interval above the bass and the interval it resolves to.
A figure is reported only when the suspended note forms the interval the figure names. A dissonance that resolves by step from anywhere else — a retardation rising a semitone from the seventh to the octave, say — is left unfigured rather than named after an interval it does not form.