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  2. Primary triad - Wikipedia

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    Primary triads in C Play ⓘ. In music, a primary triad is one of the three triads, or three-note chords built from major or minor thirds, most important in tonal and diatonic music, as opposed to an auxiliary triad or secondary triad. Each triad found in a diatonic key corresponds to a particular diatonic function.

  3. Triad (music) - Wikipedia

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    Types of triads: I ⓘ, i ⓘ, i o ⓘ, I + ⓘ 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

  4. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Primary triad; Quartal chord; Root (chord) Seventh chord; Synthetic chord; Thirteenth chord; Tone cluster; Triad (music) Upper structure ... Wikipedia® is a ...

  5. Dominant (music) - Wikipedia

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    Leading-tone triads and leading-tone seventh chords may also have dominant function. In very much conventionally tonal music, harmonic analysis will reveal a broad prevalence of the primary (often triadic) harmonies: tonic, dominant, and subdominant (i.e., I and its chief auxiliaries a 5th removed), and especially the first two of these.

  6. Function (music) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of harmonic function originates in theories about just intonation.It was realized that three perfect major triads, distant from each other by a perfect fifth, produced the seven degrees of the major scale in one of the possible forms of just intonation: for instance, the triads F–A–C, C–E–G and G–B–D (subdominant, tonic, and dominant respectively) produce the seven ...

  7. Predominant chord - Wikipedia

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    V of V in C, four-part harmony Play ⓘ. A cadential progression [1] showing I 6 4 as a predominant chord. [2] [failed verification] Play ⓘIn music theory, a predominant chord (also pre-dominant [3]) is any chord which normally resolves to a dominant chord. [3]

  8. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    Common chord in the keys of G, D, and A major; as well as E, B, and F ♯ minor.. 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. [1]

  9. Tonic (music) - Wikipedia

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    Scale and tonic triad in C major (top) and C minor (bottom) In music , the tonic is the first scale degree ( ) of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone [ 1 ] that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key -based) classical music , popular music , and traditional music .