The term sixth chord refers to two different kinds of chord, the first in classical music and the second in modern popular music. The original meaning...

music theory, an augmented sixth chord contains the interval of an augmented sixth, usually above its bass tone. This chord has its origins in the Renaissance...

Neapolitan sixth chord. In B major or B minor, for example, a Neapolitan sixth chord in first inversion contains an interval of a minor sixth between E...

sequence of ascending thirds from the root, such as the added sixth or fourth, or it can be in a chord that doesn't consist of a continuous stack of thirds, such...

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth. Chords are the building...

chord that consists of the same intervals: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented ninth above a bass note. The notes of the Tristan chord are...

of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. In most genres of popular music, including jazz, pop, and rock, a chord name...

half-diminished seventh chord exists in root position and in three inversions. The first inversion is enharmonic to a minor sixth chord: In diatonic harmony...

In music, a minor seventh chord is a seventh chord composed of a root note, a minor third, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭3, 5, ♭7). In other...

A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root. When not otherwise specified, a...

seventh is tuned 15:8. The minor flat sixth chord (minor triad with an added minor sixth) is an inversion of this chord. In 1888, the French composer Erik...

In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a seventh chord, composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor...

musical chords and simultaneities: Added tone chord Altered chord Approach chord Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant Common chord (music)...

In music, a barre chord (also spelled bar chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument played by using one finger to press down...

added major sixth is usually called a sixth chord Play, because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in...

interval of a second. With chord types, such as chords with added sixths or chords over pedal points, more than one possible chordal analysis may be possible...

ascending); if the fifth-from-root chord tone of a German sixth is omitted, the result is an Italian sixth. A diminished seventh chord meanwhile, can be respelled...

to a dominant chord. Examples of predominant chords are the subdominant (IV, iv), supertonic (ii, ii°), Neapolitan sixth and German sixth. Other examples...

composers saw the French sixth used as a dissonant and unstable chord. The chord can be built from the first, fourth, sixth and eighth degrees of the...

definition, any chord with a non-diatonic chord tone is an altered chord. The simplest example of altered chords is the use of borrowed chords, chords borrowed...

seventh chord are symmetrical. The integer notation is {0, 3, 6, 9}. Since the diminished seventh interval is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth, the...

Jazz chords are chords, chord voicings and chord symbols that jazz musicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and...

harmony, the chord is rarely seen spelled as a seventh chord and is instead most commonly found as the enharmonically equivalent French sixth chord. In jazz...

is A minor. The key of A major is the only key where the Neapolitan sixth chord on (i.e. the flattened supertonic) requires both a flat and a natural...

chords: Dominant seventh chords of subsidiary keys, used to create modulations to those keys (V7–I cadences) Augmented sixth chords Neapolitan sixth chords...

seventh chord. In figured bass, a first-inversion triad is a 6 chord (not to be confused with an added sixth chord), while a first-inversion seventh chord is...

A power chord Play, also called a fifth chord, is a colloquial name for a chord on guitar, especially on electric guitar, that consists of the root note...

composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords. Chord progressions are...

four chord-shapes for the major triads. There are separate chord-forms for chords having their root note on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth strings...

In music, the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a six-note synthetic chord and its associated scale, or pitch collection; which loosely serves as the...