The term sixth chord refers to two different kinds of chord, the first in classical music and the second in modern popular music. The original meaning...
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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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Neapolitan sixth chord. In C major or C minor, for example, a Neapolitan sixth chord in first inversion contains an interval of a minor sixth between F...
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sequence of ascending thirds from the root, such as the added sixth or fourth, or it can be in a chord that doesn't consist of a continuous stack of thirds, such...
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In music, a chord is a group of three or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth. Chords are the building...
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half-diminished seventh chord exists in root position and in three inversions. The first inversion is enharmonic to a minor sixth chord: In diatonic harmony...
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of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. In most genres of popular music, including jazz, pop, and rock, a chord name...
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In music, a minor seventh chord is a seventh chord composed of a root note, a minor third, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭3, 5, ♭7). In other...
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A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root. When not otherwise specified, a...
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chord that consists of the same intervals: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented ninth above a bass note. The notes of the Tristan chord are...
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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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In music, a barre chord (also spelled bar chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument played by using one finger to press down...
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interval of a second. With chord types, such as chords with added sixths or chords over pedal points, more than one possible chordal analysis may be possible...
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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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seventh is tuned 15:8. The minor flat sixth chord (minor triad with an added minor sixth) is an inversion of this chord. In 1888, the French composer Erik...
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Modulation (music) (redirect from Common chord modulation)
ascending); if the fifth-from-root chord tone of a German sixth is omitted, the result is an Italian sixth. A diminished seventh chord meanwhile, can be respelled...
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Jazz chords are chords, chord voicings and chord symbols that jazz musicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and...
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Thirteenth (redirect from Thirteenth chord)
added major sixth is usually called a sixth chord Play, because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in...
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A major (section Scale degree chords)
is A minor. The key of A major is the only key where the Neapolitan sixth chord on (i.e. the flattened supertonic) requires both a flat and a natural...
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Octatonic scale (redirect from Alpha chord)
composers saw the French sixth used as a dissonant and unstable chord. The chord can be built from the first, fourth, sixth and eighth degrees of the...
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seventh chord are symmetrical. The integer notation is {0, 3, 6, 9}. Since the diminished seventh interval is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth, the...
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Chromaticism (redirect from Chromatic chord)
chords: Dominant seventh chords of subsidiary keys, used to create modulations to those keys (V7–I cadences) Augmented sixth chords Neapolitan sixth chords...
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to a dominant chord. Examples of predominant chords are the subdominant (IV, iv), supertonic (ii, ii°), Neapolitan sixth and German sixth. Other examples...
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harmony, the chord is rarely seen spelled as a seventh chord and is instead most commonly found as the enharmonically equivalent French sixth chord. In jazz...
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Tritone substitution (category Chord substitution)
the tritone substitution, known in the classical world as an augmented sixth chord, can be found extensively in classical music since the Renaissance period...
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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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First inversion (redirect from Six-three chord)
seventh chord. In figured bass, a first-inversion triad is a 6 chord (not to be confused with an added sixth chord), while a first-inversion seventh chord is...
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narrowing a minor sixth by a chromatic semitone augmented sixth, an interval produced by widening a major sixth by a chromatic semitone Sixth chord, two different...
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four chord-shapes for the major triads. There are separate chord-forms for chords having their root note on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth strings...
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a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass. The ninth chord and its inversions...
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