*
Share This
Musical chord table
table started by
Freebase Data Team for the Music Commons
A Musical chord is any collection of notes or pitches that appear simultaneously, or near-simultaneously over a period of time. Within Freebase, this...
more
x
Add another type with the property you want to view.
| x name | x image | x article |
|---|---|---|
| x Major chord |
|
In music theory, a major chord ( Play (help·info)) is a chord having a root, a major third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord has these three notes alone, it is called a major triad. Some major triads with additional notes, such as the major seventh...
|
| x Augmented chord |
In general, an augmented chord Play (help·info) is any chord which contains an augmented interval. An augmented sixth chord, for instance, has an augmented sixth between the highest and lowest notes. More specifically, the augmented chord is the...
|
|
| x Minor chord |
|
In music theory, a minor chord ( play D minor chord (help·info)) is a chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord has these three notes alone, it is called a minor triad. Some minor triads with additional notes, such as the...
|
| x Diminished chord |
A diminished triad chord ( Play (help·info)) is a triad consisting of a minor third and a diminished fifth above the root — if built on C, a diminished chord would have a C, an E♭ and a G♭. It resembles a minor triad with a lowered(flatted) fifth....
|
|
| x Tristan chord |
|
The Tristan chord is a chord made up of the notes F, B, D♯ and G♯. More generally, it can be any chord that consists of these same intervals: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented second above a root. It is so named as it is the very...
|
| x Half-diminished seventh chord |
In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord play (help·info) (also known as a minor seventh flat five) is created by taking the root, minor third, diminished fifth and minor seventh (1, ♭3, ♭5 and ♭7) of any major scale; for example, C half...
|
|
| x Neapolitan chord |
|
In music theory, a Neapolitan chord (or simply a "Neapolitan") is a major chord built on the lowered second (supertonic) scale degree. It most commonly occurs in first inversion so that it is notated either as ♭II or N and normally referred to as a...
|
| x Seventh chord |
|
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 chord" usually means a major triad with a flat seventh (a "dominant seventh chord")....
|
| x Major seventh chord |
In music, a major seventh chord is any seventh chord where the "third" note is a major third above the root.
Most typically, major seventh chord refers to where the "seventh" note is a major seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note) ...
|
|
| x Minor major seventh chord |
A minor/major seventh chord play (help·info) (written m/M7, minor major seventh and *lowercase root name*M7, such as am/M7) is a naturally occurring diatonic chord in the harmonic minor scale. The chord is built on a root, and above that the...
|
|
| x Minor seventh chord |
In music, a minor seventh chord is any seventh chord where the "third" note is a minor third above the root.
Most typically, minor seventh chord refers to where the "seventh" note is a minor seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note) ...
|
|
| x Augmented minor seventh chord |
An augmented minor seventh chord comprises the root note, the note a major third above the root, the note an augmented fifth above the root, and the note a minor seventh above the root.
For example, A augmented minor seventh chord contains A, C￢ﾙﾯ...
|
|
| x Augmented major seventh chord |
An augmented major seventh chord play (help·info) comprises the root note, the note a major third above the root, the note an augmented fifth above the root, and the note a major seventh above the root.
For example, a C augmented major seventh...
|
|
| x Suspended chord |
A suspended chord is a chord in which the third is replaced or accompanied by either a perfect fourth ( play (help·info)) or a major second ( play (help·info)), although the fourth is far more common.
The term is borrowed from the contrapuntal...
|
|
| x Added tone chord |
|
An added tone chord is a triadic chord with an extra "added" note, such as the added sixth Play major triad with added major sixth (help·info). This includes chords with an added thirteenth and farther "extensions", but that do not include the...
|
| x Borrowed chord |
|
A borrowed chord is a chord borrowed from the parallel key. If the root of the borrowed chord is not in the original key, then they are named by the accidental. For instance, in major, a chord borrowed from the parallel minor's sixth degree is a ...
|
| x Polychord |
|
In music and music theory, a bichord or polychord consists of two or more chords, one on top of the other.
The use of polychords may suggest bitonality or polytonality. Harmonic parallelism may suggest bichords.
Examples may be found in Igor...
|
| x Altered chord |
|
In music, an altered chord, an example of alteration, is a chord with one or more diatonic notes replaced by, or altered to, a neighboring pitch in the chromatic scale. For example the following progression :
The next progression uses an altered IV...
|
| x Secundal |
In music or music theory, secundal is the quality of a chord made from seconds, and anything related to things constructed from seconds such as counterpoint. Secundal chords are often referred to more generally as tone clusters, especially when non...
|
|
| x Power chord |
|
In music, a power chord Play (help·info) (also fifth chord) is a chord consisting of only the root note of the chord and the fifth, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts distortion. Power...
|
| x Augmented sixth chord |
|
An augmented sixth chord contains the interval of an augmented sixth above its "root". This chord has its origins in the Renaissance, further developed in the Baroque, and became a distinctive part of the musical style of the Classical and Romantic...
|
| x Extended chord |
In music, extended chords are tertian chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh. Ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords are extended chords. The thirteenth is the furthest extension diatonically possible...
|
|
