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Chord where extra pitch is a sixth above the root
Sixth chord is the common name for any added tone chord where the extra pitch is a sixth above the root. The term also applies to three-note chords with
Sixth_chord
Chord that contains the interval of an augmented sixth
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
Augmented_sixth_chord
Major chord in music theory
Neapolitan sixth chord. In B major or B minor, for example, a Neapolitan sixth chord in first inversion contains an interval of a minor sixth between E
Neapolitan_chord
Chord made of a tertian triad and a miscellaneous fourth note
sequence of ascending thirds from the root, such as the added sixth or fourth, or it can be in a chord that does not consist of a continuous stack of thirds,
Added_tone_chord
Type of chord in music theory
half-diminished seventh chord exists in root position and in three inversions. The first inversion is enharmonic to a minor sixth chord: In diatonic harmony
Half-diminished_seventh_chord
Harmonic grouping of notes
A chord is the simultaneous sound of two or more musical notes. The most common chord has three notes and is known as a triad. Added tone chords, extended
Chord_(music)
Musical chord
chord that consists of the same intervals: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented ninth above a bass note. The notes of the Tristan chord are
Tristan_chord
System for naming chords
of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. In most genres of popular music, including jazz, pop, and rock, a chord name
Chord_notation
Type of musical chord
"One Of These Nights". The major sixth chord (major triad with an added major sixth) is an inversion of this chord. When the seventh note is a major
Minor_seventh_chord
Type of musical chord
equivalent to a major sixth, the chord is enharmonically equivalent to (1, ♭3, ♭5, ♮6). This may be labeled as a minor sixth chord with a flattened fifth. The
Diminished_seventh_chord
musical chords and simultaneities: Added tone chord Altered chord Approach chord Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant Common chord (music)
List_of_chords
Change from one tonality to another
ascending); if the fifth-from-root chord tone of a German sixth is omitted, the result is an Italian sixth. A diminished seventh chord meanwhile, can be respelled
Modulation_(music)
Type of chord in music
seventh is tuned 15:8. The minor flat sixth chord (minor triad with an added minor sixth) is an inversion of this chord. In 1888, the French composer Erik
Major_seventh_chord
Musical chord
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
Musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted
A suspended chord (or sus chord) is a musical chord in which the third is replaced by a dissonant tone like a perfect fourth or a major second. The resulting
Suspended_chord
Chords used in jazz music
Jazz chords are chords, chord voicings and chord symbols that jazz musicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and
Jazz_chord
Musical chord
In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a seventh chord composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor
Dominant_seventh_chord
Musical term
to a dominant chord. Examples of predominant chords are the subdominant (IV, iv), supertonic (ii, ii°), Neapolitan sixth and German sixth. Other examples
Predominant_chord
Compositional technique in music
chords: Dominant seventh chords of subsidiary keys, used to create modulations to those keys (V7–I cadences) Augmented sixth chords Neapolitan sixth chords
Chromaticism
Musical interval
augmented fourths. The Italian and German sixth chords each contain one augmented fourth, while the French sixth chord is composed of two superposed augmented
Tritone
Musical scale
composers saw the French sixth used as a dissonant and unstable chord. The chord can be built from the first, fourth, sixth and eighth degrees of the
Octatonic_scale
Music theory concept
the tritone substitution, known in the classical world as an augmented sixth chord, can be found extensively in classical music since the Renaissance period
Tritone_substitution
Six-note synthetic chord that appears in compositions by Alexander Scriabin
In music, the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a six-note synthetic chord and its associated scale, or pitch collection, that loosely serves as the
Mystic_chord
Topics referred to by the same term
narrowing a minor sixth by a chromatic semitone augmented sixth, an interval produced by widening a major sixth by a chromatic semitone Sixth chord, two different
Sixth
Type of musical chord
harmony, the chord is rarely seen spelled as a seventh chord and is instead most commonly found as the enharmonically equivalent French sixth chord. In jazz
Dominant seventh flat five chord
Dominant_seventh_flat_five_chord
Guitar performance technique
In music, a bar chord (also spelled barre chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument played by using one finger to press down
Bar_chord
Relative chord placement
inversion of a chord is the voicing of a triad or seventh chord in which the third of the chord is the bass note and the root is a sixth (or corresponding
First_inversion
Musical terminology
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
Altered_chord
Set of notes played on a guitar
four chord-shapes for the major triads. There are separate chord-forms for chords having their root note on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth strings
Guitar_chord
Musical interval
added major sixth is usually called a sixth chord Play, because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in
Thirteenth_(interval)
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
chords. The supertonic chord normally functions as a predominant chord, a chord that resolves to a chord with dominant function. The supertonic chord
Supertonic
Scale in jazz terminology
used over minor sixth chords. Barry Harris called this the minor sixth diminished scale and said that it is derived from a minor sixth chord (1 b3 5 6 of
Bebop_scale
Musical interval
augmented sixth chords. The just augmented sixth arises in the extended C major scale between A♭ and F♯. Play Augmented sixth chord List of meantone
Augmented_sixth
Chord borrowed from the parallel key
A borrowed chord (also called chord borrowing, mode mixture, modal mixture, substituted chord, modal interchange, or mutation) is a chord borrowed from
Borrowed_chord
Musical note characterizing a chord
e., sus4 chords), added second chords (i.e., add2 chords), and added sixth chords (i.e., add6 chords). To identify the root of such a chord, identify
Root_(chord)
Musical mode or scale
blues scale on a major chord. This tetrachord may be copied in the second, producing a D♯ and allowing an augmented sixth chord on the second degree: B7♭5/F
Flamenco_mode
Type of guitar chord
A power chord Play, also called a fifth chord, is a colloquial name for a chord played on guitar, especially on electric guitar, which consists of the
Power_chord
Song by Paul and Linda McCartney
supported by Cm and Fm chords. This leads to an A♭7–G7–Cm harmonic succession, with the A♭7 functioning as an augmented sixth chord (Ger+6). McCartney's
Monkberry_Moon_Delight
Placement of notes in music
resolving to an augmented sixth chord never double either notes of the augmented sixth, while in resolving an Italian sixth it is preferable to double
Voicing_(music)
1951 jazz composition by Charlie Parker
in the key of F major and usually begins with an F major seventh or F sixth chord. Parker's first recording of the piece is from August 1951 for Verve
Blues_for_Alice
Musical change from dissonance to consonance
period. In a classical piece of the Baroque period, for example, an added sixth chord (made up of the notes C, E, G and A, for example) has a very strong need
Resolution_(music)
Difference in pitch between two notes
analyzable as a "submediant six-five chord" (added sixth chords by popular terminology), or a first inversion seventh chord (possibly the dominant of the mediant
Interval_(music)
Top-to-bottom rearrangement of a musical interval, chord, or melody
higher), forming a fourth and a sixth above the (inverted) bass of G, respectively. Chords with four notes (such as seventh chords) work in a similar way, except
Inversion_(music)
Elliott Carter had produced a numbered listing of pitch class sets, or "chords", as Carter referred to them, for his own use. Donald Martino had produced
List_of_set_classes
Succession of musical chords
composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural, or simply changes) is a succession of chords. Chord progressions
Chord_progression
Musical interval of 9 semitones
also occurs in the second and third inversions of a dominant seventh chord. Major sixth (equal temperament) The file plays middle C, followed by A (a tone
Major_sixth
Type of chord
"counter relative" chords. In Hugo Riemann's theory, and in German theory more generally, these chords share the function of the chord to which they link:
Parallel_and_counter_parallel
Musical notation
intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, or lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) should
Figured_bass
Form of musical chord
a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass. The ninth chord and its inversions
Ninth_chord
Type of progression in music theory
this resolution of the augmented sixth chord is more frequently acceptable. "The parallel fifths [in the German sixth] arising from the natural progression
Consecutive_fifths
Musical resolution to a chord other than the tonic
irregular resolution is resolution by a dominant seventh chord or diminished seventh chord to a chord other than the tonic. Regarding the dominant seventh
Irregular_resolution
American jazz guitarist (1923–1997)
octave, and placed on the top of the chord. Major sixth, open voicing, other inversions. The same major sixth chord can be comfortably played on the bottom
Chuck_Wayne
Musical interval
(12-ET), the minor sixth is enharmonically equivalent to the augmented fifth. It occurs in first inversion major and dominant seventh chords and second inversion
Minor_sixth
Music theory concept
Examples of ambitonal chords are the major sixth chord (12:15:18:20) and the major seventh chord (8:10:12:15). Ambitonal chords often can be reasonably
Otonality_and_utonality
Technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords
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
Chord_substitution
1971 single by Lindisfarne
like Green's hit composition "Man of the World" - ends on a D major sixth chord. The song has been covered by a number of acts, including Caterina Caselli
Lady_Eleanor
Polychord
Klang, and Alexander Scriabin's Sixth Piano Sonata. Gamma chord Mystic chord Petrushka chord Psalms chord Tristan chord Lawrence Kramer. "Fin-de-siècle
Elektra_chord
Musical chord
In music, the dominant 7♯9 chord ("dominant seven sharp nine" or "dominant seven sharp ninth") is a chord built by combining a dominant seventh, which
Dominant seventh sharp ninth chord
Dominant_seventh_sharp_ninth_chord
Harmonic structures constructed from intervals of thirds
"tertian". Chords built from sixths may also be referred to as tertian because sixths are equivalent to thirds when inverted, and vice versa: any sixth can be
Tertian
Term used in Western music and music theory
diminished seventh chord has four available tensions, each a major ninth above the chord tones, and thus forming a diminished seventh chord a whole tone (or
Diminution
now almost a cliché — is the use of the sustained sixth chord in vocal music, although this chord is typically not found in religious music. Traditional
Music_of_the_Cook_Islands
Common tuning for electric steel guitar
devising an arrangement based around a C major sixth chord. The tuning allowed easy access to nearly any chord through pedals and slant positions. Byrd claimed
C6_tuning
Sound effect
located on the CMI's disk 8, within the STRINGS1 library. The Chord is an F minor sixth chord. The following samples are examples of orchestra hit voices
Orchestra_hit
Relative chord placement
The second inversion of a chord is the voicing of a triad or seventh chord in which the fifth of the chord is the bass note. In this inversion, the bass
Second_inversion
Chord
seven six chord is a chord containing both factors a sixth and a seventh above the root, making it both an added chord and a seventh chord. However, the
Seven_six_chord
1929 concert aria by Alban Berg
are ordered so that in the inverted form they arpeggiate a jazzy added sixth chord with blue third (G, F, D♭, D, B♭).[contradictory] The central sonority
Der_Wein
Method of pairing compatible chords and scales
The chord-scale system is a method of matching, from a list of possible chords, a list of possible scales. The system has been widely used since the 1970s
Chord-scale_system
Musical term
(also harmonic function or tonal function) denotes the relationship of a chord or scale degree to a tonal centre. Two main theories of tonal functions
Function_(music)
1969 song by the Beatles
use of added sixth chords in the song accentuate its dreamlike feel. The song also has an example of major 9th harmony in the Cmaj9 chord on "Here comes
Sun_King_(song)
called a chord fragment, fragmentary voicing, or partial voicing, is a group of musical notes which does not qualify as a chord under a given chord theory
Chordioid
American rock band
add 2 chord, a type of added tone chord, which they nicknamed the "mu major". The mu major chord differs from a suspended second (sus2) chord, as suspended
Steely_Dan
Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician
progresses until m. 23 when it reaches a structural V chord in the first section after an augmented sixth chord (m. 25) is emphasized (Example A). Again the music
Franz_Xaver_Richter
Spontaneous composition in jazz
in the chord (e.g., if the chord chart indicates a sixth chord on the tonic in C Major, the bassist might include the sixth degree of the C Major scale
Jazz_improvisation
1977 song by Pink Floyd
followed by the key's dominant, A major, with the minor sixth heard first at the top of the chord, in an A(add♭6), and later, as its bass note (in a progression
Dogs_(Pink_Floyd_song)
Type of musical chord
because the ascending melodic minor scale has a raised sixth and seventh degree. For example, the chord progression ♯viio–i is common. The leading-tone diminished
Diminished_triad
Musical interval
diminished third is the augmented sixth, and the numerous chords of common practice music described as augmented sixth chords thereby contain the diminished
Diminished_third
2024 Doctor Who episode
"The Devil's Chord" is the second episode of the fourteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. Released alongside
The_Devil's_Chord
Musical chord
opening tonic chord, an augmented chord results from ascending or descending movement between the fifth and sixth degrees, such as in the chord progression
Augmented_triad
common with the first movement, including extensive use of the Neapolitan sixth chord and several written-out cadenzas. The movement climaxes with a coda,
Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)
Piano_Sonata_No._23_(Beethoven)
End of a musical phrase with resolution
16th century onwards. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music. A rhythmic cadence
Cadence
Musical interval
diminished seventh chord (in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd inversion) between the diminished seventh and the root, and in the German sixth chord between the ♭ and
Augmented_second
Harmonic structure with a central pitch
note and chord, where the piece is most stable, and may be indicated by clues such as a key signature or the function of the piece's chords. For example
Tonality
1963 single by the Beatles
major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison. "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with
She_Loves_You
Basic musical interval
when proceeding to a chromatic chord, such as a secondary dominant, a diminished seventh chord, or an augmented sixth chord. Its use is also often the consequence
Semitone
Alternative form of guitar tuning
some of their E-tuned songs. Chords in drop D tuning are formed as they are in standard tuning, with the exception of the sixth string, which is either omitted
Drop_D_tuning
Musical interval
unison and the octave. It occurs above the root of all major and minor chords (triads) and their extensions. Until the late 19th century, it was often
Perfect_fifth
Chord progression
tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise: iv–III–II–I progression with respect
Andalusian_cadence
Chord
seventh, and sharpened ninth of a dominant chord or the flattened third, sixth, and ninth of a minor 6/9 chord. Paddison, Max and Deliège, Irène (2010)
Viennese_trichord
partita Chord Chord chart Chord substitution Chording Chordioid Chord progression Chord-scale system Chordal space Chroma feature Chromatic chord Chromatic
Index_of_music_articles
1977 song by Steely Dan
verse and chorus, which do not change significantly. The Neapolitan sixth chord Everett highlighted at the end of the chorus is held for two measures
Aja_(song)
Musical instrument
accessible in a simple major chord. The C6 was a common tuning for six string lap steels in the 1920s and 1930s. Tunings with a sixth interval are popular in
Lap_steel_guitar
Chordal accompaniment to a line or melody
dominant 7th), the sixth note the vi minor chord, the seventh note the vii diminished chord and the octave would be a I major chord. Using the minor (aeolian
Harmonization
Major and minor scales with same key signature
can look to the first note/chord of the melody, which usually is the tonic or the dominant (fifth note); The last note/chord also tends to be the tonic
Relative_key
Type of musical chord
In music, a primary triad is one of the three triads, or three-note chords built from major or minor thirds, most important in tonal and diatonic music
Primary_triad
1907 piano sonata by Alexander Scriabin
property shared by the French sixth (also prominent in his work). The piece also contains an incipient instance of the mystic chord which helps illuminate its
Piano_Sonata_No._5_(Scriabin)
French composer (1908–1992)
conventional diatonic chords, Messiaen often transcended their historical connotations (for example, with his frequent use of the added sixth chord as a resolution)
Olivier_Messiaen
American deathcore band
The Red Chord is an American extreme metal band from Revere, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. The group comprises vocalist Guy Kozowyk, guitarist/vocalist
The_Red_Chord
Musical scale
(IIIaug(maj7)), a minor seventh chord (ivm7), a dominant seventh chord (V7), a major seventh chord (VImaj7), and a diminished seventh chord (viidim7). Natural minor
Harmonic_minor_scale
1986 single by the Cars
transcriptionists describe the chord progression as D to D/C, to G/B, or to Gm/B♭. Either way, the last chord of the verse is a G minor sixth chord, in transition to
I'm_Not_the_One
1877 song by Arthur Sullivan
"The Lost Chord" is a song set in 1877 by Arthur Sullivan to a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord", published in 1860 in The English Woman's
The_Lost_Chord
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