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  2. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In dominant function, the VII half diminished chord, like its fully diminished counterpart, can take the place of the dominant V chord at a point of cadential motion. This chord, sometimes called a leading-tone diminished seventh chord, is represented by the Roman numeral notation vii ø 7, the root of which is the leading-tone to the tonic. [3]

  3. Seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Half diminished scale - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    dim for diminished; In addition, Δ is used for major seventh, [a] instead of the standard M, or maj; − is sometimes used for minor, instead of the standard m or min; a lowercase root note is sometimes used for minor, e.g. c instead of Cm + is used for augmented (A is not used) o is for diminished (d is not used) ø is used for half-diminished

  6. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    The diminished seventh chord is a four-note chord (a seventh chord) composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh above the root: (1, ♭ 3, ♭ 5, 7). For example, the diminished seventh chord built on B, commonly written as B o 7, has pitches B-D-F-A ♭:

  7. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    The distinctive scale degree here is the diminished fifth (d5). This makes the tonic triad diminished, so this mode is the only one in which the chords built on the tonic and dominant scale degrees have their roots separated by a diminished, rather than perfect, fifth. Similarly the tonic seventh chord is half-diminished. Tonic triad: Bdim or B°

  8. Diminished Hamas switches to full insurgent mode in Gaza - AOL

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    Hamas has seen about half its forces wiped out in eight months of war and is relying on hit-and-run insurgent tactics to frustrate Israel's attempts to take control of Gaza, U.S. and Israeli ...

  9. Harmonic minor scale - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic minor contains seven types of seventh chords: a minor major seventh chord (i m(maj7)), a half-diminished seventh chord (ii m7(−5)), an augmented major seventh chord (III aug(maj7)), a minor seventh chord (iv m7), a dominant seventh chord (V 7), a major seventh chord (VI maj7), and a diminished seventh chord (vii dim7).