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  2. Tritonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Example tritonic scale. [1] Play ⓘ. A tritonic scale is a musical scale or mode with three notes per octave.This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a dodecatonic (chromatic 12-note) scale, both common in modern Western music.

  3. La cathédrale engloutie - Wikipedia

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    The melodic material in both the B major and E-flat major sections utilize the respective pentatonic modes of those keys. This section builds to the arrival at the a 3 section. The beginning part of a 3 (b. 22–27) builds on a G dominant 7th chord and returns to utilizing more open-sounding half note and quarter note lines. This builds up to ...

  4. Triad (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, a triad is a set of three notes (or "pitch classes") that can be stacked vertically in thirds. [1] Triads are the most common chords in Western music. When stacked in thirds, notes produce triads. The triad's members, from lowest-pitched tone to highest, are called: [1] the root. Note: Inversion does not change the root. (The third or ...

  5. Three-chord song - Wikipedia

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    These three chords are a simple means of covering many melodies without the use of passing notes. The order of the chord progression may be varied; popular chord progression variations using the I, IV and V chords of a scale are: I – IV – V; IV – I – V; I – IV – I – V; I – IV – V – IV

  6. Quartal and quintal harmony - Wikipedia

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    In the Middle Ages, simultaneous notes a fourth apart were heard as a consonance.During the common practice period (between about 1600 and 1900), this interval came to be heard either as a dissonance (when appearing as a suspension requiring resolution in the voice leading) or as a consonance (when the root of the chord appears in parts higher than the fifth of the chord).

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  8. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  9. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]