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PRONUNCIATION OF DIMINISHED SEVENTH

diminished seventh  [dɪˈmɪnɪʃt ˈsɛv ənθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIMINISHED SEVENTH

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Diminished seventh is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DIMINISHED SEVENTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Diminished seventh

In classical music from Western culture, a diminished seventh ( play (help·info)) is an interval produced by narrowing a minor seventh by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from A to G is a minor seventh, ten semitones wide, and both the intervals from A♯ to G, and from A to G♭ are diminished sevenths, spanning nine semitones. Being diminished, it is considered a dissonant interval. The diminished seventh is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth. Its inversion is the augmented second. The diminished seventh is used quite readily in the minor key, where it is present in the harmonic minor scale between the seventh scale step and the sixth scale step in the octave above. In an equal tempered tuning, a diminished seventh is equal to nine semitones, a ratio of 29/12:1 (approximately 1.682), or 900 cents. There is no standard just tuning of this interval, but one possibility, assuming the flat submediant is a perfect (5:4) major third below the octave, and the leading tone to be 15:16, would lead to an interval of 128:75, about 925 cents; another interval is 216:125, which is three minor thirds.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIMINISHED SEVENTH


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seventh
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIMINISHED SEVENTH

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dimidiation
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diminishing
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WORDS THAT END LIKE DIMINISHED SEVENTH

eighteenth
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major seventh
minor seventh
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umpteenth

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TRANSLATION OF DIMINISHED SEVENTH

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Translator English - Chinese

减七
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

séptima disminuida
570 millions of speakers

English

diminished seventh
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कम सातवें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تقلص السابع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уменьшилась седьмой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sétima diminuta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সপ্তম হ্রাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

septième diminuée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berkurang ketujuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verminderten Septime
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

減7の和音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

저하 일곱째
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cacat kapitu
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thứ bảy giảm sút
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏழாவது குறைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमी सातव्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Azalmış yedinci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

settima diminuita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmniejszony siódmy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зменшилася сьомий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șaptelea diminuat
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

μειωμένη έβδομη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

verminderde sewende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förminskad sjunde
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

redusert syvende
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diminished seventh

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIMINISHED SEVENTH»

Discover the use of diminished seventh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diminished seventh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Keyboard Workshop: Hundreds of Ways You Can Improve Your ...
It is in fact called a Half Diminished Seventh (often indicated by a circle with a diagonal line going through it, as in C"7 ). The Half Diminished Seventh chord may be built by constructing a diminished chord ( 1 1/2 steps + 1 1/2 steps) and ...
Ekay Music, Incorporated, Cimino Publishing Group Inc, 1995
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Essays from the First International Schenker Symposium
chromatically descending diminished seventh chords are interpolated between the diminished seventh chord in measure 5 and its expected resolution. While the articulation of the successive diminished seventh chords in measures 6-8 ...
Hedi Siegel, 1990
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How to Play from a Fake Book
N,. ow that we have discussed the addition of sevenths to pur major and minor triads, we can complete all the types of seventh chords by adding sevenths to the other triads. Diminished Seventh Chords The diminished seventh is not too ...
Michael Esterowitz, 1986
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Harmony for Computer Musicians
The seventh on the leading note is totally unique in that it is only seventh chord that has a diminished seventh. In explanation of this, it is necessary to point out that a diminished seventh is basically a minor seventh interval that has been further ...
Michael Hewitt, 2011
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Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
Referring to Ex. 1-11a the reader will see that the next note to be added lies four half-steps above G. Therefore, the next note to be added to our nascent half- diminished seventh chord lies four half-steps below: the note E♭ (Ex. 1-11d at 3).
Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman, 2008
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Layers of Musical Meaning
If one takes a closer look at this analysis one will initially observe that the double dominant shaped as a diminished-seventh chord in bar 34, beat 4, is not the most important chord, structurally speaking. That is the chord on beat 2, i.e. an ...
Finn Egeland Hansen, 2006
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Harmony & Theory
he diminished seventh chord has already appeared once, functioning as the Vll° 7 chord in the harmonic minor scale. In this chapter, we will look at diminished seventh chords outside this diatonic setting and see how their unique structure ...
Keith Wyatt, Carl Schroeder, 1998
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The Everything Music Theory Book with CD: Take Your ...
Just like major and minor seventh chords that share the same name and type of seventh, this is the diminished seventh chord. It's also called a fully diminished seventh chord, but for most people, diminished seventh will do. The symbol for a  ...
Marc Schonbrun, 2011
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Introductory Musicianship: A Workbook
(4) HALF-DIMINISHED SEVENTH CHORDS When the quality of the triad is diminished and the quality of the seventh is minor, the chord is called a half- diminished seventh chord. The half-diminished seventh chord can also be considered a ...
Theodore Lynn, 2006
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Revisiting Music Theory: A Guide to the Practice
... see doubly diminished d-d7, see diminished-diminished seventh d-M7, see diminished-major seventh d-m7, see diminished-minor seventh Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) 27, 88 deceptive cadence 128-29 decibels 30 decrescendo 30-31 ...
Alfred Blatter, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIMINISHED SEVENTH»

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Book of the week: Béla Bartók by David Cooper
... final air of chords, which give a cadence that has a half-diminished seventh chord (E-G-B flat-D) in first inversion resolving on a D minor tonic” ... «The National, Jun 15»
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Sweelink's Impact
... by Buxtehude's favorite device of repeated eighth notes, including a prominent interval of a diminished seventh, and the second, in 3/2 time, ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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Midcoast Lens: Belfast Ukulele Picnic
John “Tin Pan Haole” Hicks enthuses about diminished seventh chords in one of three workshops offered in the Belfast Boathouse. (Photo by: ... «Republican Journal, Jun 15»
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Doo-wop is back with a party vibe
“Jazz, doo-wop and rock 'n roll have roots in ragtime because of the chord progressions, the diminished seventh that leads back to the root.”. «The News-Press, Mar 15»
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The affirmation we all so desperately need?
From here Schubert modulates first to D minor, then F minor, then A-flat major, then B minor — outlining a diminished seventh chord — using ... «Reno Gazette Journal, Dec 14»
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'The Universal Tone,' by Carlos Santana: review
When Santana takes a lick off the first scoop, Coltrane tells him: “Well, that's a B-flat diminished seventh chord.” That may a particularly quirky ... «SFGate, Dec 14»
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Tussah Heera plays for Nassau Music Society, Bahamas
Tussah then played the third movement of the sonata, Allegro, ma non troppo introduced by two wake-up diminished seventh chords, one soft ... «thebahamasweekly.com, May 14»
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Sophia Agranovich: Passion and Fantasy = BEETHOVEN: Piano …
The running figures dance silken and playfully evocative, moving with pointed grace to the cadence on D-flat and the rolled diminished seventh ... «Audiophile Audition, Apr 14»
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SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 18; MOZART: Rondo in A Minor …
... emphasizes its emotional hues that draw on the temperament of D major happiness desolated by dark runs and diminished seventh chords. «Audiophile Audition, Jan 14»
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'Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven' and 'Richard Wagner: A Life in …
The reader doesn't need to know a semiquaver from a diminished seventh to know that Gardiner's account would have gained texture from ... «New York Times, Dec 13»

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