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  2. Triad (music) - Wikipedia

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    Types of triads: I ⓘ, i ⓘ, i o ⓘ, I + ⓘ In music, a triad is a set of three notes (or "pitch classes") that can be stacked vertically in thirds. [1] Triads are the most common chords in Western music. When stacked in thirds, notes produce triads. The triad's members, from lowest-pitched tone to highest, are called: [1] the root

  3. File:New Standard Tuning - C major scale harmonized in ...

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    For 3 triads (C, G, and F major) and the major--minor seventh chord with dominant function (G7), ascending sixteenth-notes cover the chordal notes. 10:03, 27 August 2014: No thumbnail: 0 × 0 (105 KB) Kiefer.Wolfowitz: Focus exposition on major scale on C, with its major triads and dominant sevenths, in conventional arpeggiations.

  4. Tonnetz - Wikipedia

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    Euler's Tonnetz. The Tonnetz originally appeared in Leonhard Euler's 1739 Tentamen novae theoriae musicae ex certissismis harmoniae principiis dilucide expositae.Euler's Tonnetz, pictured at left, shows the triadic relationships of the perfect fifth and the major third: at the top of the image is the note F, and to the left underneath is C (a perfect fifth above F), and to the right is A (a ...

  5. Upper structure - Wikipedia

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    In the lower stave the notes E ♮ and B ♭ are given. These form a tritone which defines the dominant sound, and are the major 3rd and minor 7th of the C 7 ♯ 9 chord. In the upper stave the notes E ♭, G, and B ♭ are given together: these form an E ♭ major triad.

  6. Harmonic table note layout - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic table note layout. The Harmonic Table note-layout , or tonal array, is a key layout for musical instruments that offers interesting advantages over the traditional keyboard layout. Its symmetrical, hexagonal pattern of interval sequences places the notes of the major and minor triads together.

  7. Added tone chord - Wikipedia

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    The concept of added tones is convenient in that all notes may be related to familiar chords. [3] Inversions of added tone chords where the added tone is the bass note are usually simply notated as slash chords instead of added-tone chords. For example, instead of C add2 /D, just C/D is used.

  8. Circle of thirds - Wikipedia

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    The circle of thirds is closely tied to the diatonic scale. Every note on the circle of thirds that starts a minor triad or minor 7th chord starts a sequence of 7 notes that belong to a Dorian scale. For example the sequence DFACEGB in the circle of thirds contains all the notes in D Dorian and D Dorian's associated modes.

  9. Root position - Wikipedia

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    The root position of a chord is the voicing of a triad, seventh chord, or ninth chord in which the root of the chord is the bass note and the other chord factors are above it. . In the root position, uninverted, of a C-major triad, the bass is C — the root of the triad — with the third and the fifth stacked above it, forming the intervals of a third and a fifth above the root of C, respective