When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. C-sharp minor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_minor

    Beethoven himself used this key again in the outer movements of his String Quartet No. 14 (Op. 131, 1826). Even so, Johannes Brahms still felt the need to rewrite his C-sharp minor piano quartet in C minor, which was published as Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 .

  3. Chord notation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_notation

    the root note (e.g. C ♯) the chord quality (e.g. minor or lowercase m, or the symbols o or + for diminished and augmented chords, respectively; chord quality is usually omitted for major chords) whether the chord is a triad, seventh chord, or an extended chord (e.g. Δ 7) any altered notes (e.g. sharp five, or ♯ 5) any added tones (e.g. add2)

  4. C-sharp major - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_major

    In Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, Franz Liszt takes the unusual step of changing the key from D-flat major to C-sharp major near the start of the piece, and then back again to B-flat minor. Maurice Ravel selected C-sharp major as the tonic key of "Ondine" from his piano suite Gaspard de la nuit.

  5. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_substitution

    Thus, in the simple chord progression I–ii–V–I, which in the key of C major would be the chords C Major–D minor–G Major–C Major, a musician could replace the I chords with "tonic substitutes". The most widely used substitutes are iii and vi (in a Major key), which in this case would be the chords "E minor" and "A minor".

  6. Closely related key - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closely_related_key

    In music, a closely related key (or close key) is one sharing many common tones with an original key, as opposed to a distantly related key (or distant key). In music harmony , there are six of them: four of them share all the pitches except one with a key with which it is being compared, one of them shares all the pitches, and one shares the ...

  7. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis

    These chords are all borrowed from the key of E minor. Similarly, in minor keys, chords from the parallel major may also be "borrowed". For example, in E minor, the diatonic chord built on the fourth scale degree is IVm, or A minor. However, in practice, many songs in E minor will use IV (A major), which is borrowed from the key of E major.

  8. Slash chord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_chord

    D/F ♯ (alternately notated D major/F ♯ bass) notated in regular notation (on top) and tabulature (below) for a six-string guitar. Play ⓘ.. In music, especially modern popular music, a slash chord or slashed chord, also compound chord, is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass note after the root note letter.

  9. Chord progression - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_progression

    For example, the relative minor of C major is A minor, and in the key of A minor, the i, iv and v chords are A minor, D minor and E minor. In practice, in a minor key, the third of the dominant chord is often raised by one semitone to form a major chord (or a dominant seventh chord if the seventh is added). In addition, the seventh degree of ...