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A minor major seventh chord, or minor/major seventh chord (also known as the Hitchcock Chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root, minor third, perfect fifth, and major seventh (1, ♭ 3, 5, and 7). It can be viewed as a minor triad with an additional major seventh. When using popular-music symbols, it is denoted by e.g. m (M7).
The harmonic minor scale (or Aeolian ♮7 scale) is a musical scale derived from the natural minor scale, with the minor seventh degree raised by one semitone to a major seventh, [2] [3] [4] creating an augmented second between the sixth and seventh degrees.
The major seventh chord, sometimes also called a Delta chord, can be written as maj 7, M 7, Δ, ⑦, etc. The "7" does not have to be superscripted, but if it is, then any alterations, added tones, or omissions are usually also superscripted. For example, the major seventh chord built on C, commonly written as Cmaj 7, has pitches C–E–G–B:
The most common chords are tertian, constructed using a sequence of major thirds (spanning 4 semitones) and/or minor thirds (3 semitones). Since there are 3 third intervals in a seventh chord (4 notes) and each can be major or minor, there are 7 possible permutations (the 8th one, consisted of four major thirds, results in a non-seventh augmented chord, since a major third equally divides the ...
Note that this provides other ways of showing a ninth chord, for instance, C 7add 9, C 7add 2, or C 7/9. Generally however, this is shown as simply C 9 , which implies a seventh in the chord. 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 ...
This is possible because the ♭ II 7 has the same third and seventh as the V 7, but inverted; for example, the third and seventh of G 7 are B and F, while the third and seventh of D ♭ 7 are F and C ♭, which is enharmonic to B. Performing this substitution (in this case, changing Dm 7 –G 7 –C maj7 to Dm 7 –D ♭ 7 –C maj7) creates ...
Related scales in Spanish traditional music with chromatic notes in the second degree, varying between a semitone and a tone, are also known as "gama española" ("Spanish gamut") or "gama de Castilla y León" (gamut of Castile and León) and, though found all over Spain, are particularly common in Castilian and Leonese traditional songs. [6]
2 or V 2 its third inversion (F–G–B–D). [11]: 79–80 In the United Kingdom, there exists another system where the Roman numerals are paired with Latin letters to denote inversion. [14] In this system, an “a” suffix is used to represent root position, “b” for first inversion, and “c” for second inversion.