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  2. Diminished triad - Wikipedia

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    Like the supertonic minor triad found in a major key, the supertonic diminished triad has a predominant function, almost always resolving to a dominant functioning chord. [7] If the music is in a minor key, diminished triads can also be found on the raised seventh note, ♯ vii o. This is because the ascending melodic minor scale has a raised ...

  3. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Approach chord; Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant; Common chord (music) Diatonic function; Eleventh chord; Extended chord; Jazz chord; Lead sheet; List of musical intervals; List of pitch intervals; List of musical scales and modes; List of set classes; Ninth chord; Open chord; Passing chord; Primary triad; Quartal chord ...

  4. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In this role, a diminished seventh chord resolves to a major or dominant seventh chord whose root is one of the notes of the diminished seventh chord (common tone), the most common being the raised supertonic seventh, which resolves to the tonic in major keys (♯ ii o 7 –I, shown below) and the raised submediant, which resolves to dominant ...

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    Extended chords add further notes to seventh chords. Of the seven notes in the major scale, a seventh chord uses only four (the root, third, fifth, and seventh). The other three notes (the second, fourth, and sixth) can be added in any combination; however, just as with the triads and seventh chords, notes are most commonly stacked – a ...

  6. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In this scenario, the half-diminished seventh chord is built on the tritone of the overall key and is equivalent to a secondary dominant seventh chord with added ninth and omitted root. If written with respect to the overall key, this chord is styled " ♯ iv ø 7 ," but in terms of its function in the progression, the styling "vii ø7 /V" is ...

  7. Diminished major seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    Diminished major seventh chords are very dissonant, containing the dissonant intervals of the tritone and the major seventh.They are frequently encountered, especially in jazz, as a diminished seventh chord with an appoggiatura [citation needed], especially when the melody has the leading note of the given chord: the ability to resolve this dissonance smoothly to a diatonic triad with the same ...

  8. Chromaticism - Wikipedia

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    The total chromatic is the collection of all twelve equally tempered pitch classes of the chromatic scale. List of chromatic chords: Dominant seventh chords of subsidiary keys, used to create modulations to those keys (V 7 –I cadences) Augmented sixth chords; Neapolitan sixth chords as chromatic subdominants; Diminished seventh chords as ...

  9. Secondary chord - Wikipedia

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    If it is major, the leading-tone chord may be either half-diminished or fully diminished, though fully diminished chords are used more often. [24] Because of their symmetry, secondary leading-tone diminished seventh chords are also useful for modulation; all four notes may be considered the root of any diminished