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  2. Secondary chord - Wikipedia

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    A series of extended dominant chords continues to resolve downwards by the circle of fifths until it reaches the tonic chord. The most common extended dominant chord is the tertiary dominant, [citation needed] which resolves to a secondary dominant.

  3. List of chord progressions - Wikipedia

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    IV-V-I-vi chord progression in C major: 4: Major I–V–vi–IV: I–V–vi–IV chord progression in C: 4: Major I–IV– ♭ VII–IV: I–IV– ♭ VII–IV. 3: Mix. ii–V–I progression: ii–V–I: 3: Major ii–V–I with tritone substitution (♭ II7 instead of V7) ii– ♭ II –I: 3: Major ii-V-I with ♭ III + as dominant ...

  4. Extended chord - Wikipedia

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    In music, extended chords are certain chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh. Ninth , eleventh , and thirteenth chords are extended chords. [ 2 ] The thirteenth is the farthest extension diatonically possible as, by that point, all seven tonal degrees are represented within the chord (the next ...

  5. Extension (music) - Wikipedia

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    A special class of soprano, the soprano sfogato, while retaining the high notes characteristic of the soprano vocal range, may be able to hit down to E3 using the chest voice. Due to the rarity of true contraltos, usually mezzo-sopranos with strong low extension are employed instead in roles such as "Ulrica" in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

  6. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    For example, the previously mentioned chord progression, in the key of E ♭ major, would be written as E ♭ major–B ♭ major–C minor–A ♭ major in a fake book or lead sheet. In the first chord, E ♭ major, the "E ♭ " indicates that the chord is built on the root note "E ♭ " and the word "major" indicates that a major chord is ...

  7. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]

  8. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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    Listeners accustomed to more tonal tuning, such as meantone and well temperaments, notice many other notes are "off". Harmonics on C, from 1st (fundamental) to 32nd harmonic (five octaves higher). Notation used is based on the extended just notation by Ben Johnston Harmonic series as musical notation with intervals between harmonics labeled ...

  9. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    2 or V 2 its third inversion (F–G–B–D). [11]: 79–80 In the United Kingdom, there exists another system where the Roman numerals are paired with Latin letters to denote inversion. [14] In this system, an “a” suffix is used to represent root position, “b” for first inversion, and “c” for second inversion.