| Bass Suspension | A suspension that occurs when the bass voice is suspended, creating a 2nd (or 9th) with an upper voice, resulting in a 2-3 suspension.
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| Chain of Suspensions | The figure resulting when the resolution of one suspension serves as the preparation for another suspension.
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| Neighboring Tone | A non-chord tone that embellishes a single tone; this tone is approached by moving either up or down by step and resolves by step in the opposite direction to the original tone.
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| Non-Chord Tone (NCT) | A tone, either diatonic or chromatic, that is not a member of the prevailing chord.
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| Passing Tone | A non-chord tone that is approached and resolved by step in the same direction, filling in the space between two tones, which may belong to the same or different chords.
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| Preparation | The tone preceding the suspension (it is the same pitch as the suspension).
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| Resolution | The tone following the suspension and lying a 2nd below it.
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| Retardation | A non-chord tone that functions like a suspension but features an upward stepwise resolution.
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| Suspension | A non-chord tone that occurs when a chord tone is sustained after the other parts have moved on to the next chord, after which it resolves down by step into that next chord. It is preceded by a "preparation" and followed by a "resolution." The term also refers to the "preparation-sequence-resolution" unit in its entirety.
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| Suspension Figure | A melodic process in which a chord tone is treated as though it were a suspension. A suspension figure often occurs in conjunction with the approach to the 7th of a V7 chord when that 7th is also a chord tone of the preceding chord and appears in the same voice..
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| Suspension with Change of Bass | A upper-voice suspension in which the bass moves on to another chord tone at the same time as the suspension resolves.
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