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  2. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

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    In major keys, the chords iii and vi are often substituted for the I chord, to add interest. In the key of C major, the I major 7 chord is "C, E, G, B," the iii chord ("III–7" [11]) is E minor 7 ("E, G, B, D") and the vi minor 7 chord is A minor 7 ("A, C, E, G"). Both of the tonic substitute chords use notes from the tonic chord, which means ...

  3. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    Common chords are frequently used in modulations, in a type of modulation known as common chord modulation or diatonic pivot chord modulation. It moves from the original key to the destination key (usually a closely related key) by way of a chord both keys share. For example, G major and D major have 4 chords in common: G, Bm, D, Em.

  4. Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky) - Wikipedia

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    The first violins and cellos play a repeating echoing version of the original melody, this time in a minor key, with the seconds and violas playing repeated triplets out of key to increase tension. The section then explodes into a climax and transitions into a descending melody by the violas, with solid chords played by the rest of the orchestra.

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    Added tone chord notation is useful with seventh chords to indicate partial extended chords, for example, C 7add 13, which indicates that the 13th is added to the 7th, but without the 9th and 11th. The use of 2, 4, and 6 rather than 9, 11, and 13 indicates that the chord does not include a seventh unless explicitly specified.

  6. String Quartet No. 15 (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b is the second of his quartets dedicated to Haydn and the only one of the set in a minor key. Though undated in the autograph , [ 1 ] it is believed to have been completed in 1783, while his wife Constanze Mozart was in labour with her first child Raimund.

  7. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    Inverted seventh chords are similarly denoted by one or two Arabic numerals describing the most characteristic intervals, namely the interval of a second between the 7th and the root: V 7 is the dominant 7th (e.g. G–B–D–F); V 6 5 is its first inversion (B–D–F–G); V 4 3 its second inversion (D–F–G–B); and V 4

  8. List of string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f; String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K. 155/134a; String Quartet No. 3 in G major, K. 156 (K. 134b)

  9. String Quartets, Op. 50 (Haydn) - Wikipedia

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    The movement ends in that key, pianissimo, with a segue (an explicit direction given by Haydn to avoid too long a pause between the movements) to the D-major minuet. [ 40 ] The minuet is the shortest among those of the Opus 50, but the trio features an exceptionally long second section, [ 39 ] which uses drifting melodies, a fermata and a pair ...