List of chords
Appearance
The following is a list of musical chords and simultaneities:
Code | Chord type |
---|---|
Major | Major chord |
Minor | Minor chord |
Augmented | Augmented chord |
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 | 3-12 | 0 4 8 | Augmented | ||
Augmented eleventh chord[1] | 6-34 | 0 4 7 t 2 6 | Major | ||
Augmented major seventh chord | 4-19 | 0 4 8 e | Augmented | ||
Augmented seventh chord | 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 | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | ||
Diminished major seventh chord | 4-18 | 0 3 6 e | Diminished | ||
Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord) | 4-28 | 0 3 6 9 | Diminished | ||
Dominant | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Dominant eleventh chord | 6-33 | 0 4 7 t 2 5 | Major | ||
Dominant minor ninth | 5-31 | 0 4 7 t 1 | Major | ||
Dominant ninth | 5-34 | 0 4 7 t 2 | Major | ||
Dominant parallel | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Dominant seventh chord | 4-27 | 0 4 7 t | Major | ||
Dominant seventh flat five chord | 4-25 | 0 4 6 t | Diminished | ||
Dominant seventh sharp nine / Hendrix chord | 5-32 | 0 4 7 t 3 | Major | ||
Dominant thirteenth chord | 7-35 | 0 4 7 t 2 5 9 | Major | ||
Dream chord | 4-6 | 0 5 6 7 | Just | ||
Elektra chord | 5-32 | 0 7 9 1 4 | Bitonal | ||
Farben chord | 5-z17 | 0 8 e 4 9 | Atonal | ||
Half-diminished seventh chord | 4-27 | 0 3 6 t | Diminished | ||
Harmonic seventh chord | 4-27 | 0 4 7 t | Major | ||
Leading-tone triad | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | ||
Lydian chord | 5-20 | 0 4 7 e 6 | Major | ||
Magic chord | 8 | 0 1 5 6 t 0 3 5 | Just | ||
Major chord | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Major eleventh chord | 6-z25 | 0 4 7 e 2 5 | Major | ||
Major seventh chord | 4-20 | 0 4 7 e | Major | ||
Major seventh sharp eleventh chord | 5-30 | 0 4 8 e 6 | Augmented | ||
Major sixth chord | 4-26 | 0 4 7 9 | Major | ||
Major sixth ninth chord ("6 add 9",[2] Nine six,[3] 6/9) | 5-35 | 0 4 7 9 2 | Major | ||
Major ninth chord | 5-27 | 0 4 7 e 2 | Major | ||
Major thirteenth chord | 7-35 | 0 4 7 e 2 5 9 | Major | ||
Mediant | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Minor chord | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Minor eleventh chord | 6-32 | 0 3 7 t 2 5 | Minor | ||
Minor major seventh chord | 4-19 | 0 3 7 e | Minor | ||
Minor ninth chord | 5-27 | 0 3 7 t 2 | Minor | ||
Minor seventh chord | 4-26 | 0 3 7 t | Minor | ||
Minor sixth chord | 4-27 | 0 3 7 9 | Minor | ||
Minor sixth ninth chord (6/9) | 5-29 | 0 3 7 9 2 | Minor | ||
Minor thirteenth chord | 7-35 | 0 3 7 t 2 5 9 | Minor | ||
Mystic chord | 6-34 | 0 6 t 4 9 2 | Atonal | ||
Neapolitan chord | 3-11 | 1 5 8 | Major | ||
Ninth augmented fifth chord[2][4] | 5-33 | 0 4 8 t 2 | Augmented | ||
Ninth flat fifth chord[2] | 5-33 | 0 4 6 t 2 | M3+d5 | ||
Northern lights chord | 11-1 | 1 2 8 0 3 6 7 t e 4 7 | Atonal | ||
"Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord | 6-20 | 0 1 4 5 8 9 | Atonal | ||
Petrushka chord | 6-30 | 0 1 4 6 7 t | Bitonal | ||
Power chord P5 |
2-5 | 0 7 | Indeterminate | ||
Psalms chord | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Secondary dominant | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Secondary leading-tone chord | 3-10 | 0 3 6 | Diminished | ||
Secondary supertonic chord | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Seven six chord[5] | 5-25 | 0 4 7 9 t | Major | ||
Seventh suspension four chord[6] | 4-23 | 0 5 7 t | Suspended | ||
So What chord | 5-35 | 0 5 t 3 7 | Bitonal | ||
Suspended chord | 3-9 | 0 5 7 | Suspended | ||
Subdominant | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Subdominant parallel | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Submediant | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Subtonic | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Supertonic | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Thirteenth flat ninth chord[2] | 6-27 | 0 4 7 t 1 x 9[7] | Major | ||
Thirteenth flat ninth flat fifth chord[2] | 6-z49 | 0 4 6 t 1 x 9[7] | M3+d5 | ||
Tonic counter parallel | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Tonic | 3-11 | 0 4 7 | Major | ||
Tonic parallel | 3-11 | 0 3 7 | Minor | ||
Tristan chord | 4-27 | 0 3 6 t | Predominant | ||
Viennese trichord | 3-5A | 0 1 6 or 0 6 7 |
Atonal |
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.