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  2. Neapolitan scale - Wikipedia

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    The 4th mode of the Neapolitan major, also known as the Lydian Dominant ♭ 6 scale, is an excellent choice for the 9 ♯ 11 ♭ 13 chord. Said mode contains all the alterations plus the ♮ 5. A whole tone scale is often used but that mode tends to be minus the ♮ 5 that the Lydian Minor contains.

  3. Major chord - Wikipedia

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    A major triad has a major third (M3) on the bottom, a minor third (m3) on top, and a perfect fifth (P5) between the outer notes. In harmonic analysis and on lead sheets, a C major chord can be notated as C, CM, CΔ, or Cmaj. A major triad is represented by the integer notation {0, 4, 7}.

  4. Neapolitan chord - Wikipedia

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    Especially in its most common occurrence (as a triad in first inversion), the chord is known as the Neapolitan sixth: . The chord is called "Neapolitan" because it is associated with the Neapolitan School, which included Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, Domenico Cimarosa, and other important 18th-century composers of Italian opera.

  5. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A "common chord" may also be defined simply as a triadic chord [2] (e.g., C–E–G), as one of the most commonly used chords in a key (I–IV–V–vi–ii–iii), [3] more narrowly as a triad in which the fifth is perfect (i.e., a major or minor triad), in which sense it is alternatively referred to as a "perfect chord" [4] [5] or, more ...

  6. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the notation C/E bass indicates a C major triad in first inversion i.e. a C major triad with an E in the bass. Likewise the notation C/G bass indicates that a C major chord with a G in the bass (second inversion). See figured bass for alternate method of notating specific notes in the bass.

  7. Upper structure - Wikipedia

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    Common jazz parlance refers to upper structures by way of the interval between the root of the bottom chord and the root of the triad juxtaposed above it. [2] For instance, in example one above (C 7 ♯ 9) the triad of E ♭ major is a (compound) minor 3rd away from C (root of the

  8. G-flat major - Wikipedia

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    The Flohwalzer can be played in G-flat major, or F-sharp major, for its easy fingering. John Rutter has chosen G-flat major for a number of his compositions, including "Mary's Lullaby" and "What sweeter music". [5] In a charity interview [6] he explained several of the reasons that drew him to this key. In many soprano voices there is a break ...

  9. Lydian chord - Wikipedia

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    Lydian chords may function as subdominants or substitutes for the tonic in major keys. [3] The compound interval of the augmented eleventh (enharmonically equivalent to ♯ 4, the characteristic interval of the Lydian mode) is used since the simple fourth usually only appears in suspended chords (which replace the third with a natural fourth, for example C sus4).