Day: November 20, 2009

Inversions of V7 usually function as linear chords. These chords usually appear as complete chords, and resolve to complete tonic triads. The leading tone always resolves to tonic when appearing in an inverted V7. The V6/5 has the leading tone in the bass (like a V6), and must resolve to a root position tonic triad.…

I’ve posted on root-position dominant seventh chords before. For our purposes, you don’t need to worry about the motion into and out of the chordal seventh for now. I’ll add a posting to talk about dominant seventh chords in inversions (linear dominants).