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chord
harmonic set of three or more notes
3-note chord
type of three-note chord in music and music theory
power chord
musical chord composed of a root (tonal) note and its respective fifth
Tristan chord
a particular musical chord used by Richard Wagner
tone cluster
musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale
Neapolitan sixth chord
major chord built on the lowered second (supertonic) scale degree
major chord
chord having a root, a major third, and a perfect fifth
parallel key
major and minor scales with the same tonic
minor chord
chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth
augmented chord
chord with an augmented interval
tierce de Picardie
musical cadence that uses a major chord to end a minor-key piece
diminished triad
a triad consisting of a root, a minor third, and a diminished fifth; e.g. C–E♭–G♭
chord symbol
system for naming chords
4-note chord
chord made up of four notes
suspended chord
musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted
polychord
thumb|300x300px|Fred Steiner's 1957 Perry Mason theme, "[[Park Avenue Beat", ends with a polychord quoted by Frank Zappa in "Jezebel Boy", Broadway the Hard Way (1988) and described by Walter Everett as "juicy". ]]In music and music theory, a polychord consists of two or more chords, one on top of the other. In chord notation, polychords are written with the top chord above a line and the bottom chord below, for example, F over C (shown below) is notated as .
mystic chord
six-note synthetic chord that appears in compositions by Alexander Scriabin
augmented sixth chord
chord that contains the interval of an augmented sixth
six-four chord
second inversion of the major triad
Roman numeral analysis
Use of Roman numeral symbols in the musical analysis of chords
Block chord
musical chord with rhythmic unison
open chord
guitar chord that includes one or more strings that are not fingered; an open string vibrates with more resonance than a string which is pressed down
Trichord
thumb|upright=1.4|The seven contiguous trichords in C major. See also: Cardinality equals variety.
all-interval twelve-tone row
musical tone series
Borrowed chord
chord borrowed from the parallel key
common chord
chord formed by the root note, the third part of the same and a perfect fifth
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