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PRONUNCIATION OF SEVENTH CHORD

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEVENTH CHORD

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Seventh chord is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEVENTH CHORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 dominant seventh chord: a major triad together with a minor seventh. However, a variety of sevenths may be added to a variety of triads, resulting in many different types of seventh chords, as described below. In its earliest usage, the seventh was introduced solely as an embellishing or nonchord tone. The seventh destabilized the triad, and allowed the composer to emphasize movement in a given direction. As time passed and the collective ear of the western world became more accustomed to dissonance, the seventh was allowed to become a part of the chord itself, and in some modern music, and jazz in particular, nearly every chord is a seventh chord. Additionally, the general acceptance of equal temperament during the 19th century reduced the dissonance of some earlier forms of sevenths. "A ranking by frequency of the seventh chords in major would be approximately that shown.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SEVENTH CHORD

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Synonyms and antonyms of seventh chord in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «seventh chord» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEVENTH CHORD

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The translations of seventh chord from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «seventh chord» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

七和弦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acorde de séptima
570 millions of speakers

English

seventh chord
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सातवें राग
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الوتر السابع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

септаккорд
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acorde de sétima
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সপ্তম ঘড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accord de septième
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketujuh kord
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Septakkord
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

7の和音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일곱째 코드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pitung kapindho
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hợp âm thứ bảy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏழாவது நாண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सातवा जीवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yedinci akor
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accordo di settima
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

siódmy akord
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

септакорд
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șaptelea coardă
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

έβδομη χορδή
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

sewende koord
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

septimackord
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

syvende akkord
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEVENTH CHORD»

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Guitar Exercises For Dummies
153 Chapter 12: Trying Your Hand at Seventh Chord Arpeggio Sequences ........... ........157 Taking On Dominant Seventh Chord Arpeggio Sequences ........................ ......................157 Dominant seventh chord ...
Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, 2008
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Cengage Advantage Books: Introductory Musicianship
A four-tone chord combining a triad and the interval of a seventh above the root is called a seventh chord. Like all chords, seventh chords can be constructed on any given pitch. Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not ...
Theodore Lynn, 2011
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Introduction to Music Fundamentals and Lead-Sheet Terminology
The Real Seventh Chord In the course of our studies, we shall find that the seventh component of a real seventh chord always seeks to move down by step to form a consonance within the next chord—if there is a tone of resolution available in ...
David Nivans, 2011
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Modern Mallet Method, Bk 2
Major Sixth Chord, Minor Seventh Chord Review, Progression Minor Seventh To Dominant Seventh To Tonic 10 LESSON IV Scale Form #3, Major Scales Diatonic Thirds (Melodic), Inversions Major Sixth Chord, Minor Seventh Chord Review, ...
Kraus, Phil
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Arranging and Composing
For the dominant seventh chord substitute the minor seventh a perfect fourth below the root of the chord, as in the following example: 1^ g/1111 ш 2. For the dominant seventh chord substitute the major chord a whole step below the root of the ...
Baker, David
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The Harmonization of the Chorale: A Comprehensive Workbook ...
THE SEVENTH CHORD Triads are constructed in thirds above a root. By adding yet another third above the normal triad, one can produce chords where there is a seventh between root and uppermost member. So-called seventh chords, then,  ...
Steven Porter, 1987
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The Everything Music Theory Book with CD: Take Your ...
Track 33 To make a major triad into a seventh chord, there are only two possibilities: a major triad with a major seventh on top, and a major triad with a minor seventh on top. Start with Figure 8.3. When you look at that chord, you can see two ...
Marc Schonbrun, 2011
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Mathematics and Music: Composition, Perception, and Performance
(a) For the C-major seventh chord shown in Figure 3.41, find the chords resulting from the transposition T4 and the chromatic inversion IT5. (b) Explain why every transposition and every chromatic inversion maps a major seventh chord to a ...
James S. Walker, Gary W. Don, 2013
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A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the ...
Begin with a dominant seventh chord. 1. Begin with a dominant seventh chord. 2. Successively lower the third, fifth, and seventh of the chord by semitone, in any order, eventually producing a diminished seventh chord. 2. Successively lower ...
Dmitri Tymoczko, 2011
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Harmony for Computer Musicians
hen studying seventh chord harmony, it is a lot more convenient to begin with the major key. This is because the minor key uses numerous forms of minor scale— natural, harmonic, and melodic—which makes the study of seventh chord ...
Michael Hewitt, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEVENTH CHORD»

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Pop Music Gets Its Fossil Record Analyzed
Turns out, from 1960 to 2009, the dominant seventh chord [Elvis Presley—"I Feel So Bad"] all but disappeared in what they call the death of blues and jazz on ... «Scientific American, May 15»
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Darwin Meets Devo: The Continuing Evolution of Pop Music
Notably, the use of dominant seventh chords, which are commonly used in jazz and blues, declined by about 75 percent between 1960 and 2009. It was a ... «Pacific Standard, May 15»
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The affirmation we all so desperately need?
It was published as Op. 99, but only in 1836, seven and a half years after ... a diminished seventh chord — using the repeated-note motive heard earlier. We are ... «Reno Gazette Journal, Dec 14»
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Sondre Lerche: Please
His chord progressions typically stray away from the pop songwriting ... If you don't know what a major seventh chord is, you will after a few of Lerche's tunes. «PopMatters, Sep 14»
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Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim
Yet those pummeling chords, for all their raw power, are like the harmonic equivalent of .... To oversimplify, almost every chord is a kind of seventh chord. «New York Times, May 14»
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Power Rangers Super Megaforce Game Announced For Fall 2014
Japanese developer Seventh Chord have been keeping busy. Not only did they work on the Tales of Hearts R remake for PlayStation Vita, Bandai Namco have ... «Siliconera, Apr 14»
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前田敦子、Zeppワンマンで涙「今日は甘えちゃいます」
前田敦子が昨日4月3日に東京・Zepp Tokyoにて、ワンマンライブ「前田敦子 1st LIVE【SEVENTH CHORD】」を開催した。 最新シングル「セブンスコード」を携えて行われた ... «ナタリー, Apr 14»
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Review: Riffstation jam software for guitar
The Chord Viewer auto-detects a song's chords and displays them in real time ..... The automatic detection will return major, minor and seventh chords only, and ... «Gizmag, May 13»
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Barbershop strikes the right chord
What's distinctive about the music is its rich harmonic blend, traditionally sung a cappella and enhanced with the barbershop seventh chord, a major chord with ... «Half Moon Bay Review, Apr 13»
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Deep Blues: Old Blues, New Chords
Instead of using dominant chords throughout the progression, we will add a diminished seventh chord as well as some minor seventh chords. Let's get started. «Premier Guitar, Jun 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Seventh chord [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/seventh-chord>. May 2024 ».
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