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Sixth chord

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in classical music was considered an autonomous harmonic entity with the root named by the bass, while it was later simply considered an inversion of a chord with the bass being the third (not the root) and the root being the sixth (not the bass). A first-inversion C major chord is shown below.
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follows a harmonic progression found frequently in 1930s dance-band arrangements." However, Richard Taruskin points out that Berg's "chord thus created, B flat, D, F, G had an important poetic resonance", as it echoes the ending of Mahler's "Abschied."
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The sixth chord was a common feature of the harmony of jazz and popular music during the entire twentieth century. One of the attractions of the chord is its tonal ambiguity. The harmony contains within it aspects that are both major and minor.
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sees Strauss’s use of the added sixth chord as the “one stylistic idiosyncrasy… that went from him into the general idiom of European (or European-style) music, and that is the freedom with which the sixth degree of the scale is harmonized.”
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Derek B. Scott, Sounds of the metropolis: the nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna, Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-19-530946-4, ISBN 978-0-19-530946-1, 304 pages (page
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of the sixth may be determined by the scale or may be indicated. For example, in a major scale, a diatonic sixth added to the tonic chord will be major (C–E–G–A) while in minor it will be minor (C–E
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Unlike the major sixth chord which is often substituted for a major triad, the minor sixth is more versatile and plays a number of different harmonic roles due to its identity as an
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is the first inversion of a major triad built on the flattened supertonic (second degree of the scale) – a Neapolitan sixth in C major, therefore, consists of the notes F, A
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This chord might be notated Cm, Cm, Cmin/maj, Cmin, etc. Note that Cm has the same notes as F with the root omitted, i.e. the notes F (omitted), A, E
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Just like the minor is to the major, the minor sixth can be considered to be similarly related to the dominant seventh.
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Deruchie, A. (2009, p. 97) "Mahler’s farewell or The Earth’s Song? Death, Orientalism and Mahler’s ‘Der Abschied’",
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in popular music, so there is no need for a term designating the first inversion of a chord, and so the term
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above it. This is how the term is still used in classical music today, and in this sense it is called also a
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of the strongest interval of the chord in first inversion (CEGA), the perfect fifth (C–G), is the root (C).
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Instances of the sixth chord crop up in popular music towards the end of the 19th century, for example in
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The minor flat sixth chord is arpeggiated in the first chord of the dungeon music from the first
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Two different kinds of chord, the first in classical music and the second in modern popular music
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in C major, for example) as the bass note – in this case, they tend to resolve to the dominant.
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The dominant chord's fifth may be substituted by the chord's sixth, analyzed as its thirteenth:
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resolves itself through a series of halting steps, rhythmically and harmonically, towards the
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chord is the appropriate notation choice. In some cases, the harmony is ambiguous.
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seventh chord (possibly the dominant of the supertonic V/ii). According to the
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and later... retained as a part of the chord, no resolution taking place."
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The Oxford History of Western Music: Music in the Early Twentieth Century.
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of the early 1900s. The following passage "is in F major; its seeming
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The Popular Style; the Antecedents of Twentieth Century Popular Music
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and theory, the sixth is required due to it being an added tone.
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chord of some popular music being traditionally analyzable as a "
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An unusual use of this chord at the start of a work occurs in
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This chord might be notated Cm. It also shares identity as an
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respectively, considers this chord to be the utonality to the
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Fujita, T., Hagino, Y., Kubo, H. and Sato, G. (1989, p.282)
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Harmony and Theory: A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians
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frequently used the sixth chord, for example in his piano
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above the root. Thus in C, it contains the notes C, E
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uses the minor added sixth chord to striking effect:
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Index

Major sixth chord
chord
classical music
popular music
first inversion
third
bass
root
sixth
triad
chord factor
added sixth chord
Jean-Philippe Rameau
chord inversions
First inversion
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six three chord
suspension
appoggiatura
resolved
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jazz
added sixth chord
major triad
major
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minor seventh chord
common practice period
tonic

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