Figured bass suspensions

A suspension happens when a note from one chord is held over (or repeated) into the following chord, making a dissonance with the bass. The dissonance then resolves to a consonance. Here, the F from the previous V7a chord is repeated in the Ia chord.

1. Can you have suspensions in the bass?
2. How do you write a 7 6 suspension?
3. Is there such thing as a 6'5 suspension?
4. What is a 4-3 suspension music theory?

Can you have suspensions in the bass?

Suspensions are labeled based on intervals above the bass. The four common suspension types are 9-8, 7-6, 4-3, and 2-3. Many other types are possible, especially if the bass moves before the resolution occurs.

How do you write a 7 6 suspension?

(music) A suspension that has the suspended note a seventh (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) from the bass move down a step to the note in the chord where the suspension is happening that is a sixth (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) above the bass note.

Is there such thing as a 6'5 suspension?

Thus, 6-5 as a non-chord tone can happen as a suspension figure. Some people also use the term "consonant suspension".

What is a 4-3 suspension music theory?

4-3 suspension (plural 4-3 suspensions) A musical device, commonplace in the Western classical tradition, whereby a suspension is formed through a note a fourth above the bass which resolves to a third.