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  2. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    The term chromatic progression is used in three senses: Movement between harmonies that are not elements of any common diatonic system (that is, not of the same diatonic scale: movement from D–F–A to D ♯ –F ♯ –A, for example). [38] The same as the second sense of chromatic inflection, above. [39]

  3. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    Short cyclical progressions may be derived by selecting a sequence of chords from the series completing a circle from the tonic through all seven diatonic chords: [15] I–IV–vii o –iii–vi–ii–V–I. This type of progression was much used by classical composers, who introduced increasingly subtle inflections.

  4. Chromaticism - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic fourth: lament bass bassline in Dm (D–C ♯ –C(♮)–B–B ♭ –A) The diatonic scale notes (above) and the non-scale chromatic notes (below) [1] Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. In simple terms, within each octave ...

  5. Diatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Modern musical keyboards are designed so that the white-key notes form a diatonic scale, though transpositions of this diatonic scale require one or more black keys. A diatonic scale can be also described as two tetrachords separated by a whole tone. In musical set theory, Allen Forte classifies diatonic scales as set form 7–35.

  6. Circle of fifths - Wikipedia

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    The diatonic circle of fifths is the circle of fifths encompassing only members of the diatonic scale. Therefore, it contains a diminished fifth, in C major between B and F. See structure implies multiplicity. The circle progression is commonly a circle of fifths through the diatonic chords, including one diminished chord.

  7. I–V–vi–IV progression - Wikipedia

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    I–V–vi–IV progression in C Play ⓘ vi–IV–I–V progression in C Play ⓘ The I–V–vi–IV progression is a common chord progression popular across several music genres. It uses the I, V, vi, and IV chords of the diatonic scale. For example, in the key of C major, this progression would be C–G–Am–F. [1] Rotations include:

  8. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The diatonic genus is composed of tones and semitones, the chromatic genus is composed of semitones and a minor third, the enharmonic genus consists of a major third and two quarter-tones or diesis. [16] Within these basic forms, the intervals of the chromatic and diatonic genera were varied further by three and two "shades" (chroai ...

  9. 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 ...