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  2. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    List of set classes. Ninth chord. Open chord. Passing chord. Primary triad. Quartal chord. Root (chord) Seventh chord. Synthetic chord.

  3. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

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    F–C7–F, F–F ♯ 7–F, B–F ♯ 7–B, then B–C7–B. In music theory, chord substitution is the technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords, or a chord progression. Much of the European classical repertoire and the vast majority of blues, jazz and rock music songs are based on chord progressions.

  4. Inversion (music) - Wikipedia

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    That is, when the first goes up, the second goes down the same number of diatonic steps (with some chromatic alteration); and when the first goes down, the second goes up the same number of steps. In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of ...

  5. Intersecting chords theorem - Wikipedia

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    Intersecting chords theorem. In Euclidean geometry, the intersecting chords theorem, or just the chord theorem, is a statement that describes a relation of the four line segments created by two intersecting chords within a circle. It states that the products of the lengths of the line segments on each chord are equal.

  6. Suspended chord - Wikipedia

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    3-9 / 9-9. A suspended chord (or sus chord) is a musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted and replaced with a perfect fourth or a major second. [1] The lack of a minor or a major third in the chord creates an open sound, while the dissonance between the fourth and fifth or second and root creates tension.

  7. Altered chord - Wikipedia

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    An altered chord is a chord that replaces one or more notes from the diatonic scale with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale. By the broadest definition, any chord with a non-diatonic chord tone is an altered chord. The simplest example of altered chords is the use of borrowed chords, chords borrowed from the parallel key, and the most ...

  8. Seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    The dominant seventh chord on C. A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root. When not otherwise specified, a "seventh chord" usually means a dominant seventh chord: a major triad together with a minor seventh. However, a variety of sevenths may be added to a variety of ...

  9. All-interval twelve-tone row - Wikipedia

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    The Grandmother chord is an eleven-interval, twelve-note, invertible chord with all of the properties of the Mother chord. Additionally, the intervals are so arranged that they alternate odd and even intervals (counted by semitones) and that the odd intervals successively decrease by one whole-tone while the even intervals successively increase by one whole-tone. [13]