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  2. 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 ...

  3. Dominant seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    The leading note and the subdominant note combined form a diminished fifth, also known as a tritone. The clashing sound produced by playing these two notes together gives the dominant seventh chord its dissonant quality (i.e. its harmonic instability). [4] Dominant seventh chords are often built on the fifth scale degree (or dominant) of a key.

  4. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    For example, for the chords "Dm7 ♭ 5 G7 ♭ 9, play down the B♭7 scale from its seventh to B" (B being the added half-step "bebop note" and third of the G7 ♭ 9 chord). This works because the notes of the Dm7 ♭ 5 chord { D F A ♭ C } are also chord tones of B ♭ 9 { B ♭ D F A ♭ C }.

  5. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    The diminished seventh chord is a four-note chord (a seventh chord) composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh above the root: (1, ♭ 3, ♭ 5, 7). For example, the diminished seventh chord built on B, commonly written as B o 7, has pitches B-D-F-A ♭:

  6. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Chord type Major: Major chord: Minor: Minor chord: Augmented: Augmented chord: Diminished: ... List of musical chords Name Chord on C Sound # of p.c.-Forte # p.c. #s ...

  7. Major seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In music, a major seventh chord is a seventh chord in which the third is a major third above the root and the seventh is a major seventh above the root. The major seventh chord, sometimes also called a Delta chord, can be written as maj 7, M 7, Δ, ⑦, etc. The "7" does not have to be superscripted, but if it is, then any alterations, added ...

  8. Minor seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In music, a minor seventh chord is a seventh chord composed of a root note, a minor third, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭ 3, 5, ♭ 7). In other words, one could think of it as a minor triad with a minor seventh attached to it. [2] For example, the minor seventh chord built on A, commonly written as A− 7, has pitches A-C-E-G:

  9. Dominant seventh sharp ninth chord - Wikipedia

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    [12] In jazz, 7 ♯ 9 chords, along with 7 ♭ 9 chords, are often employed as the dominant chord in a minor ii–V–I turnaround. For example, a ii–V–I in C minor could be played as: Dm 7 ♭ 5 – G 7 ♯ 9 – Cm 7. The 7 ♯ 9 represents a major divergence from the world of tertian chord theory, where chords are stacks of major and ...