Note to moderator: Read the second part slowly. Robert Gjerdingen listed a version of this progression with a bass moving in fourths on scale degrees 1, 5, 6, and 3 as the first among many “schemata” used in the galant style. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this minor-mode four-chord progression whose chords, all in root position, are major III, major VII, minor i, major V. The four chords are usually repeated twice, with the second time resolving on a final minor i.
ANSWER: romanesca
[10m] The galant romanesca’s bass and soprano voices can both be seen in this piece, which opens with the chords D major, A major, B minor, and F-sharp minor. Those chords are repeated under the melody F-sharp, E, D, C-sharp.
ANSWER: Pachelbel’s Canon in D [or Pachelbel’s Canon in D]
[10e] The Renaissance romanesca is perhaps most famous from its use in this English song addressed to its title lady, which was apocryphally written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn.
ANSWER: “Greensleeves”
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