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Borrowed chords are widely used in Western popular music and rock music. For example, there are a number of songs in E major which use the ♭ III chord (e.g., a G major chord used in an E major song), the ♭ VII chord (e.g., a D major chord used in an E major song) and the ♭ VI chord (e.g., a C major chord used in an E major song). All of ...
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The fourth degree in major may be substituted for a seventh chord to create a "bluesy" sound. In a progression going up a fourth, if the first chord is a minor seventh chord, it can also be substituted for a seventh chord; a relative second degree can also be added before it to create a ii–V–I turnaround. (A sole minor seventh or seventh ...
Quintal harmony (the harmonic layering of fifths specifically) is a lesser-used term, and since the fifth is the inversion or complement of the fourth, it is usually considered indistinct from quartal harmony. Because of this relationship, any quartal chord can be rewritten as a quintal chord by changing the order of its pitches.
Common ways of notating or representing chords [48] in western music other than conventional staff notation include Roman numerals, figured bass (much used in the Baroque era), chord letters (sometimes used in modern musicology), and various systems of chord charts typically found in the lead sheets used in popular music to lay out the sequence ...
Chord qualities are related to the qualities of the component intervals that define the chord. The main chord qualities are: Major and minor; Augmented, diminished, and half-diminished; Dominant; Some of the symbols used for chord quality are similar to those used for interval quality: No symbol, or sometimes M or Maj for major; m, or min for minor
The most commonly used dissonant chord in a pop song context is the dominant seventh chord built on the fifth scale degree; in the key of C Major, this would be a G dominant seventh chord, or G7 chord, which contains the pitches G, B, D and F. This dominant seventh chord contains a dissonant tritone interval between
The Language of Music (2012) is a contemporary music theory book written by Tom Brooks and published by Hal Leonard Publishing. [1] The book explains principles used in modern music starting at a foundational level (Basic Building Blocks of Music) and progressing to topics such as Chord Building, Transposition, Cadences, Modes, and Chord Substitution. [2]