List of chords
The following is a list of musical chords and simultaneities:
Code | Chord type |
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Major | Major chord |
Minor | Minor chord |
Augmented | Augmented chord |
Diminished | Diminished chord |
Indeterminate | Indeterminate chord |
Predominant | Predominant chord |
Suspended | Suspended chord |
M3+d5 | Major third, flat five |
Just | Just intonation |
Bitonal | Bitonal chord |
Atonal | Atonal chord |
Name | Chord on C | Sound | # of p.c.-Forte # | p.c. #s | Quality |
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Augmented chord | Playⓘ | 3-12 | 0 4 8 | Augmented | |
Augmented eleventh chord[1] | Playⓘ | 6-34 | 0 4 7 t 2 6 | Major | |
Augmented major seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-19 | 0 4 8 e | Augmented | |
Augmented seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-24 | 0 4 8 t | Augmented | |
Augmented sixth chord | 3-8 4-25 4-27B | 0 4 t 0 4 6 t 0 4 7 t | Predominant | ||
Diminished chord | Playⓘ | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | |
Diminished major seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-18 | 0 3 6 e | Diminished | |
Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord) | Playⓘ | 4-28 | 0 3 6 9 | Diminished | |
Dominant | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Dominant eleventh chord | Playⓘ | 6-33 | 0 4 7 t 2 5 | Major | |
Dominant minor ninth | Playⓘ | 5-31 | 0 4 7 t 1 | Major | |
Dominant ninth | Playⓘ | 5-34 | 0 4 7 t 2 | Major | |
Dominant parallel | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Dominant seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-27 | 0 4 7 t | Major | |
Dominant seventh flat five chord | Playⓘ | 4-25 | 0 4 6 t | Diminished | |
Dominant seventh sharp nine / Hendrix chord | Playⓘ | 5-32 | 0 4 7 t 3 | Major | |
Dominant thirteenth chord | Playⓘ | 7-35 | 0 4 7 t 2 5 9 | Major | |
Dream chord | Playⓘ | 4-6 | 0 5 6 7 | Just | |
Elektra chord | Playⓘ | 5-32 | 0 7 9 1 4 | Bitonal | |
Farben chord | Playⓘ | 5-z17 | 0 8 e 4 9 | Atonal | |
Half-diminished seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-27 | 0 3 6 t | Diminished | |
Harmonic seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-27 | 0 4 7 t | Major | |
Leading-tone triad | Playⓘ | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | |
Lydian chord | Playⓘ | 5-20 | 0 4 7 e 6 | Major | |
Magic chord | Playⓘ | 8 | 0 1 5 6 t 0 3 5 | Just | |
Major chord | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Major eleventh chord | Playⓘ | 6-z25 | 0 4 7 e 2 5 | Major | |
Major seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-20 | 0 4 7 e | Major | |
Major seventh sharp eleventh chord | Playⓘ | 5-30 | 0 4 8 e 6 | Augmented | |
Major sixth chord | Playⓘ | 4-26 | 0 4 7 9 | Major | |
Major sixth ninth chord ("6 add 9",[2] Nine six,[3] 6/9) | Playⓘ | 5-35 | 0 4 7 9 2 | Major | |
Major ninth chord | Playⓘ | 5-27 | 0 4 7 e 2 | Major | |
Major thirteenth chord | Playⓘ | 7-35 | 0 4 7 e 2 5 9 | Major | |
Mediant | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Minor chord | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Minor eleventh chord | Playⓘ | 6-32 | 0 3 7 t 2 5 | Minor | |
Minor major seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-19 | 0 3 7 e | Minor | |
Minor ninth chord | Playⓘ | 5-27 | 0 3 7 t 2 | Minor | |
Minor seventh chord | Playⓘ | 4-26 | 0 3 7 t | Minor | |
Minor sixth chord | Playⓘ | 4-27 | 0 3 7 9 | Minor | |
Minor sixth ninth chord (6/9) | Playⓘ | 5-29 | 0 3 7 9 2 | Minor | |
Minor thirteenth chord | Playⓘ | 7-35 | 0 3 7 t 2 5 9 | Minor | |
Mystic chord | Playⓘ | 6-34 | 0 6 t 4 9 2 | Atonal | |
Neapolitan chord | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 1 5 8 | Major | |
Ninth augmented fifth chord[2][4] | Playⓘ | 5-33 | 0 4 8 t 2 | Augmented | |
Ninth flat fifth chord[2] | Playⓘ | 5-33 | 0 4 6 t 2 | M3+d5 | |
Northern lights chord | Playⓘ | 11-1 | 1 2 8 0 3 6 7 t e 4 7 | Atonal | |
"Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord | Playⓘ | 6-20 | 0 1 4 5 8 9 | Atonal | |
Petrushka chord | Playⓘ | 6-30 | 0 1 4 6 7 t | Bitonal | |
Power chord P5 | Playⓘ | 2-5 | 0 7 | Indeterminate | |
Psalms chord | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Secondary dominant | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Secondary leading-tone chord | Playⓘ | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | |
Secondary supertonic chord | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Seven six chord[5] | Playⓘ | 5-25 | 0 4 7 9 t | Major | |
Seventh suspension four chord[6] | Playⓘ | 4-23 | 0 5 7 t | Suspended | |
So What chord | Playⓘ | 5-35 | 0 5 t 3 7 | Bitonal | |
Suspended chord | Playⓘ | 3-9 | 0 5 7 | Suspended | |
Subdominant | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Subdominant parallel | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Submediant | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Subtonic | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Supertonic | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Thirteenth flat ninth chord[2] | Playⓘ | 6-27 | 0 4 7 t 1 x 9[7] | Major | |
Thirteenth flat ninth flat fifth chord[2] | Playⓘ | 6-z49 | 0 4 6 t 1 x 9[7] | M3+d5 | |
Tonic counter parallel | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Tonic | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | |
Tonic parallel | Playⓘ | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | |
Tristan chord | Playⓘ | 4-27 | 0 3 6 t | Predominant | |
Viennese trichord | Playⓘ | 3-5A | 0 1 6 or 0 6 7 | Atonal |
See also
- Added tone chord
- Altered chord
- Approach chord
- Chord names and symbols (popular music)
- Chromatic mediant
- Common chord (music)
- Diatonic function
- Eleventh chord
- Extended chord
- Jazz chord
- Lead sheet
- List of musical intervals
- List of pitch intervals
- List of musical scales and modes
- List of set classes
- Ninth chord
- Open chord
- Passing chord
- Primary triad
- Quartal chord
- Root (chord)
- Seventh chord
- Synthetic chord
- Thirteenth chord
- Tone cluster
- Triad (music)
- Upper structure
References
- ^ Pearse, John (1977). The Guitarist's Picture Chord Encyclopedia, p.31. ISBN 0-8256-2199-2.
- ^ a b c d e Bay, William (10 April 1971). Encyclopedia of guitar chords. Mel Bay Publications. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-87166-664-2. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ Pearse (1977), p.35.
- ^ Pearse (1977), p.27.
- ^ Pearse (1977), p.34.
- ^ Pearse (1977), p.24
- ^ a b x could be either 5, 6, or nothing, depending on the eleventh of the chord.
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