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  2. Passamezzo antico - Wikipedia

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    The romanesca is a variant of the passamezzo antico, where the first chord is the III (e.g., a C major chord in A minor). A famous example is "Greensleeves".The passamezzo antico chord changes are found, knowingly or not, in modern popular music culture: Carrie Underwood's debut album Some Hearts has two examples, "Before He Cheats" (a big U.S. hit in 2006) and "Starts with Goodbye".

  3. Renaissance music - Wikipedia

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    One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third and its inversion, the sixth (in the Middle Ages, thirds and sixths had been considered dissonances, and only perfect intervals were treated as consonances: the perfect fourth the perfect fifth, the octave, and the unison).

  4. Augmented sixth chord - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, an augmented sixth chord contains the interval of an augmented sixth, usually above its bass tone.This chord has its origins in the Renaissance, [2] was further developed in the Baroque, and became a distinctive part of the musical style of the Classical and Romantic periods.

  5. Cadence - Wikipedia

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    During the dominant chord, a seventh above the dominant may be added to create a dominant seventh chord (V 7); the dominant chord may also be preceded by a cadential 6 4 chord. The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians says, "This cadence is a microcosm of the tonal system, and is the most direct means of establishing a pitch as ...

  6. English cadence - Wikipedia

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    It features a flattened seventh scale degree against the dominant chord, [1] which in the key of C would be B ♭ and G–B ♮ –D. Popular with English composers of the High Renaissance and Restoration periods in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the English cadence is described as archaic [2] or old-fashioned [3] sounding. It was ...

  7. Andalusian cadence - Wikipedia

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    Palos of flamenco. The Andalusian cadence (diatonic phrygian tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise – a iv–III–II–I progression with respect to the Phrygian mode or i–VII–VI–V progression with respect to the Aeolian mode (minor). [1]

  8. Passamezzo moderno - Wikipedia

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    Gregory Walker root progression [a]. The progression or ground bass, the major mode variation of the passamezzo antico, originated in Italian and French dance music during the first half of the 16th century, where it was often used with a contrasting progression or section known as ripresa.

  9. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    Guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In music, a chord is a group of three or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth. [a] Chords are the building blocks of harmony and form the harmonic foundation of a piece of music. They can be major, minor, diminished, augmented, or extended ...