A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord...

earliest usage, the seventh was introduced solely as an embellishing or nonchord tone. The seventh destabilized the triad, and allowed the composer to emphasize...

dominant (fifth note of the scale) tones. The pedal tone is considered a chord tone in the original harmony, then a nonchord tone during the intervening dissonant...

expectation. Technically, anticipation also refers specifically to a type of nonchord tone. Note: This section refers to the process of generating the thought...

English word not Neighbor tone, a nonchord tone that passes from a chord tone directly above or below it and resolves to the same tone "N.T.", a song by Kool...

In harmony, the consonance and dissonance of a chord factor and a nonchord tone are distinguished, respectively. Chord factors are taken into consideration...

(D♭–F–A♭). A nonchord tone is a dissonant or unstable tone that lies outside the chord currently heard, though often resolving to a chord tone. In the key...

tuning of its strings Pedal point, a type of nonchord tone, usually in the bass Pedal tone, a fundamental tone played on brass instruments Piano pedals,...

without any slurring or "scooping". Glissando List of ornaments Meend Nonchord tone#Portamento Pitch wheel Vibrato Portato, also rarely called portamento...

importance. A drone differs from a pedal tone or point in degree or quality. A pedal point may be a form of nonchord tone and thus required to resolve unlike...

(1965) Other types of chromaticity: Pitch axis theory Parallel scales Nonchord tone The minor mode in major keys (mode mixture) Shir-Cliff, Jay, and Rauscher...

Historically, in strong melody writing, chord tones are usually placed on the on-beats and nonchord tones are placed on the off-beats. The bebop scale...

of notes of longer value is expressed in notes of smaller value. See nonchord tone. A melody or series of notes is diminished if the lengths of the notes...

of NCT NCT Wish, the fifth and final sub-unit of NCT Nonchord tone, or non-harmonic tone, tones not analyzed as part of the chord This disambiguation...

Anticipation (mixtape), a 2009 mixtape by Trey Songz Anticipation, a type of nonchord tone "Anticipation", a song by Blonde Redhead from their 2004 album Misery...

Piano and Wind Instruments Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 10 Nonchord tone Andriessen & Schönberger 2006, 57. Kostelanetz 2013, 465. Anon. 2001...

a chord tone (i.e. the root, third, fifth or seventh) the other chord notes will also fall on the beat. As a result, all of the nonchord tones will fall...

tonic falls to the leading-tone. Harmonically, the interval usually occurs as some form of dissonance or a nonchord tone that is not part of the functional...

F–A–C–E–G–B is considered a seventh chord on F, F–A–C–E, with G and B being nonchord tones added above triadically. In 19th-century classical music the seventh...

creating tension and release. Bar-line shift Coltrane changes Polytonality Nonchord tone Porter, Lewis. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University...

passing chords with more freedom, because each bar goes by so fast. Nonchord tone Turnaround (music) Blues turnaround Shanaphy and Knowlton (1990). The...

involving stepwise melodic motion in one direction between two harmonic tones. "The compositional unfolding of a specific interval, one of the intervals...

In music, changing tones (also called double neighboring tones and neighbor group) consists of two consecutive non-chord tones. The first moves in one...

New Venice School Niente Ninth Ninth chord Nocturne Noise music Nomos Nonchord tone Nonet (music) Non-lexical vocables in music Notehead Note nere Notes...

trill, turn or cambiata on each note in turn, or by the introduction of nonchord tones or arpeggio figures. The English term 'division' broadly corresponds...

preparation is the consonant pitch or chord which precedes a dissonant nonharmonic tone. The move from a dissonance to a consonance constitutes a resolution. In...

neither classically tonal nor completely atonal" (see chromaticism and nonchord tones). Tymoczko observed that relatively limited macroharmonies, of between...

major). Neighbour note (German: Nebennote) Nonchord tone that passes, usually stepwise, from a chord tone directly above or below it (which frequently...

as an example of Harrison indulging "his penchant for nonresolving nonchord tones". The same till was used on Pink Floyd's 1973 song "Money". Martin said...