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  2. Harmonic major scale - Wikipedia

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    The harmonic major scale has its own set of modes, distinct from the harmonic minor, melodic minor, and major modes, depending on which note serves as the tonic.Below are the mode names, their degrees, and the following seventh chords that can be built using each modal tonic or degree of the parent mode as the root: a major seventh chord, a half-diminished seventh chord, a minor seventh chord ...

  3. Harmonic - Wikipedia

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    just major third, major third: 2 · P 8 + M 3 3 000 Hz: 386.3 ¢ Play ⓘ 6 th: perfect fifth: 2 · P 8 + P 5 3 600 Hz: 702.0 ¢ Play ⓘ 7 th: harmonic seventh, septimal minor seventh (‘the lost chord’) 2 · P 8 + m 7 ↓: 4 200 Hz: 968.8 ¢ Play ⓘ 8 th: third perfect octave: 3 · P 8 4 800 Hz: 0.0 ¢ Play ⓘ 9 th: Pythagorean major ...

  4. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    Musical form unfolds over time through the expansion and development of these ideas. In tonal harmony, form is articulated primarily through cadences, phrases, and periods. [2] "Form refers to the larger shape of the composition. Form in music is the result of the interaction of the four structural elements," of sound, harmony, melody, and ...

  5. Function (music) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of harmonic function originates in theories about just intonation.It was realized that three perfect major triads, distant from each other by a perfect fifth, produced the seven degrees of the major scale in one of the possible forms of just intonation: for instance, the triads F–A–C, C–E–G and G–B–D (subdominant, tonic, and dominant respectively) produce the seven ...

  6. Harmonization - Wikipedia

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    Harmonized C major scale Play ⓘ: I, ii, iii, IV, V7, vi, vii o.. In music, harmonization is the chordal accompaniment to a line or melody: "Using chords and melodies together, making harmony by stacking scale tones as triads".

  7. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. [1] Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords , textures and tonalities are identified, defined, and ...

  8. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    Alan P. Merriam [15] proposed a theoretical research model that assumes three aspects are always present in musical activity: concept, behaviour, and sound. Virgil Thomson [16] lists the "raw materials" of music in order of their supposed discovery: rhythm, melody, and harmony; including counterpoint and orchestration.