• In music, a common tone is a pitch class that is a member of, or common to (shared by) two or more chords or sets. Typically, it refers to a note shared...
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  • Common tone may refer to: Common tone (chord) Common tone (scale) Common tone diminished seventh chord Common chord (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • An added tone chord, or added note chord, is a non-tertian chord composed of a triad and an extra "added" note. Any tone that is not a seventh factor...
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  • major sixth, the chord is enharmonically equivalent to (1, ♭3, ♭5, ♮6). The diminished seventh chord occurs as a leading-tone seventh chord in the harmonic...
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  • contrast, a chord tone is a note that is a part of the functional chord. Nonchord tones are most often discussed in the context of the common practice period...
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    and a fifth above the root note. Chords with more than three notes include added tone chords, extended chords and tone clusters, which are used in contemporary...
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    modulating dominant, pivot chord Melodic: recognizable segment of the scale of the quasi-tonic or strategically placed leading-tone Metric and rhythmic: quasi-tonic...
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    A common chord, in the theory of harmony, is a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to (shared by) two keys. A "common...
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  • definition, any chord with a non-diatonic chord tone is an altered chord. The simplest example of altered chords is the use of borrowed chords, chords borrowed...
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  • major key (viio in Roman numeral analysis), while a leading-tone seventh chord is a seventh chord built on the seventh scale degree (viiø7). Walter Piston...
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  • are okay". The chord-scale system may be compared with other common methods of improvisation, first, the older traditional chord tone/chord arpeggio method...
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  • music theory, an augmented sixth chord contains the interval of an augmented sixth, usually above its bass tone. This chord has its origins in the Renaissance...
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    In music theory, chord substitution is the technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords, or a chord progression. Much of...
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  • Secondary chords are a type of altered or borrowed chord, chords that are not part of the music piece's key. They are the most common sort of altered chord in...
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  • books, the symbol "dim" or "o" represents a diminished seventh chord (a four-tone chord), which in some modern jazz books and music theory books is represented...
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  • major chords) whether the chord is a triad, seventh chord, or an extended chord (e.g. Δ7) any altered notes (e.g. sharp five, or ♯5) any added tones (e.g...
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    and vii. In 12-TET, or twelve-tone equal temperament (now the most common tuning system in the West), a minor chord has 3 semitones between the root...
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  • In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a seventh chord composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor...
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    the original and every odd transposition has no common tones whatsoever). Approach chord Common chord (music) Rothenberg propriety Walkdown Johnson, Timothy...
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  • different types of seventh chords. In its earliest usage, the seventh was introduced solely as an embellishing or nonchord tone. The seventh destabilized...
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  • In music, the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a six-note synthetic chord and its associated scale, or pitch collection; which loosely serves as the...
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  • musical chords and simultaneities: Added tone chord Altered chord Approach chord Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant Common chord (music)...
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    second-most-common form of nondominant seventh chords. The supertonic chord normally functions as a predominant chord, a chord that naturally resolves to chord with...
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  • Thirteenth (redirect from Thirteenth chord)
    usually called a sixth chord Play, because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in such context. However...
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  • In Classical music theory, a Neapolitan chord (or simply a "Neapolitan") is a major chord built on the lowered (flattened) second (supertonic) scale degree...
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    passing tone through the ninth factor of the chord of resolution. Less often, the thirteenth may also remain the same and become the third of the chord of...
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  • dominant seventh, leading-tone, and leading tone half-diminished seventh chords, but rejected the concept of a ninth chord on the basis that only that...
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  • added sixth chord or triad with added sixth since Jean-Philippe Rameau (sixte ajoutée) in the 18th century. It is not common to designate chord inversions...
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    down the strings). Players often use this chording technique to play a chord that is not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings. For instance...
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  • harmony in Western musical tradition from the common practice era of Classical music to the 21st century. Chord progressions are the foundation of popular...
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