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The half-diminished seventh chord is frequently used in passages that convey heightened emotion. For example, the "mournful affect" [5] of the sombre opening Chorus of J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (1727) features the chord on the seventh beat of its first bar and on the first beat of its third bar:
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 ...
Diminished Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord) Play ... Half-diminished seventh chord: Play ...
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 ...
Five of the most common seventh chord, all built on C: major (C Δ7), dominant (C 7), minor (C– 7), half-diminished (C ø 7), and diminished (C o 7) A seventh chord is a triad with a seventh . The seventh is either a major seventh [M7] above the root, a minor seventh [m7] above the root (flatted 7th), or a diminished seventh [d7] above the ...
dominant seventh flat five chord: half-diminished seventh chord: sus2 triad add7 ♭5 double harmonic scale, Dorian ♭2 ♯3 ♭6 ♯7 scale major seventh chord: minor seventh chord: minor sixth chord, (equivalent: half-diminished seventh chord starting with the third tone) minor major seventh chord: dominant seventh flat five chord: augmented ...
The half diminished scale is a seven-note musical scale.It is more commonly known as the Locrian ♯ 2 scale [1] or the Aeolian ♭ 5 scale, names that avoid confusion with the diminished scale and the half-diminished seventh chord (minor seventh, diminished fifth).
o or dim indicates a diminished chord, either a diminished triad or a diminished seventh chord (d is not used). ø indicates a half-diminished seventh chord. In some fake books, the abbreviation m 7(♭ 5) is used as an equivalent symbol. 2 is mostly used as an extra note in a chord (e.g., add2, sus2).