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Composer's Handbook

Anticipation

An anticipation sounds a note of the next chord before that chord arrives.

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Let the melody reach a note of the next chord before the accompaniment changes.

Example

Moving from C to G: the melody plays B on the last eighth of the C bar and then holds B as G arrives.

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