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  2. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    A diminished seventh chord may function as a common-tone diminished seventh chord. In this role, a diminished seventh chord resolves to a major or dominant seventh chord whose root is one of the notes of the diminished seventh chord (common tone), the most common being the raised supertonic seventh, which resolves to the tonic in major keys ...

  3. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    For instance, in the symbol Cm 7 (C minor seventh chord) C is the root and m is the chord quality. When the terms minor, major, augmented, diminished, or the corresponding symbols do not appear immediately after the root note, or at the beginning of the name or symbol, they should be considered interval qualities , rather than chord qualities.

  4. Seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    A half-diminished seventh chord is a seventh chord built from the seventh degree of a major scale. It is considered "half-diminished" because a fully diminished seventh has a double-flatted (diminished) seventh, making it enharmonically the same as a major sixth. The half-diminished seventh chord uses a minor seventh over the root of a ...

  5. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Diminished Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord) ... Altered chord; Approach chord; Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant;

  6. Diminished triad - Wikipedia

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    The leading-tone diminished triad and supertonic diminished triad are usually found in first inversion (vii o 6 and ii o 6, respectively) since the spelling of the chord forms a diminished fifth with the bass. [6] This differs from the fully diminished seventh chord, which commonly occurs in root position. [8]

  7. Diminished major seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    Diminished major seventh chords are very dissonant, containing the dissonant intervals of the tritone and the major seventh.They are frequently encountered, especially in jazz, as a diminished seventh chord with an appoggiatura [citation needed], especially when the melody has the leading note of the given chord: the ability to resolve this dissonance smoothly to a diatonic triad with the same ...

  8. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In dominant function, the VII half diminished chord, like its fully diminished counterpart, can take the place of the dominant V chord at a point of cadential motion. This chord, sometimes called a leading-tone diminished seventh chord, is represented by the Roman numeral notation vii ø 7, the root of which is the leading-tone to the tonic. [3]

  9. Harmonic major scale - Wikipedia

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    The harmonic major scale has its own set of modes, distinct from the harmonic minor, melodic minor, and major modes, depending on which note serves as the tonic.Below are the mode names, their degrees, and the following seventh chords that can be built using each modal tonic or degree of the parent mode as the root: a major seventh chord, a half-diminished seventh chord, a minor seventh chord ...