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  2. Added tone chord - Wikipedia

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    The practice of adding tones may have led to superimposing chords and tonalities, though added tone chords have most often been used as more intense substitutes for traditional chords. [3] For instance a minor chord that includes a major second factor holds a great deal more dramatic tension due to the very close interval between the major ...

  3. Petrushka chord - Wikipedia

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    The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. These two major triads , C major and F ♯ major – a tritone apart – clash, "horribly with each other," when sounded together and create a dissonant chord .

  4. List of chord progressions - Wikipedia

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    IV-V-I-VI chord progression in C major: 4: Major I–V–vi–IV: I–V–vi–IV chord progression in C: 4: Major I–IV– ♭ VII–IV: I–IV– ♭ VII–IV. 3: Mix. ii–V–I progression: ii–V–I: 3: Major ii–V–I with tritone substitution (♭ II7 instead of V7) ii– ♭ II –I: 3: Major ii-V-I with ♭ III + as dominant ...

  5. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    Guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. 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. [a] Chords are the building blocks of harmony and form the harmonic foundation of a piece of music. They can be major, minor, diminished, augmented, or extended ...

  6. Ninth chord - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass. [1] The ninth chord and its inversions exist today, or at least they can exist. The pupil will easily find examples in the literature [such as Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Strauss's opera Salome]. It ...

  7. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the chord is viewed as a C major seventh chord (CM 7) in which the third note is an augmented fifth from root (G ♯), rather than a perfect fifth from root (G). All chord names and symbols including altered fifths, i.e., augmented (♯ 5, +5, aug5) or diminished (♭ 5, o 5, dim5) fifths can be interpreted in a similar way.

  8. I–V–vi–IV progression - Wikipedia

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    I–V–vi–IV chord progression in C Play ⓘ. vi–IV–I–V chord progression in C Play ⓘ. The I–V–vi–IV progression is a common chord progression popular across several genres of music. It uses the I, V, vi, and IV chords of a musical scale. For example, in the key of C major, this progression would be C–G–Am–F. [1 ...

  9. Tritone substitution - Wikipedia

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    In standard jazz harmony, tritone substitution works because the two chords share two pitches that themselves are a tritone apart: namely, the third and the seventh of the chord, albeit reversed. [8] In a G 7 chord, the third is B and the seventh is F; in its tritone substitution, D ♭ 7, the third is F and the seventh is C ♭ (enharmonically ...