Harmony

Harmony

A chord is a set of harmonically related notes that are heard simultaneously. The most basic types of chord are triads.

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A triad built on the 5th degree of the c major scale, called the dominant creates a feeling of tension which wants to resolve. This is created predominantly from the tension of the leading tone wanting to resolve to the tonic of the key and of the dominant wanting to resolve to the octave. The intervals of a semi tone and of a perfect fourth are the strongest intervals in terms of defining the tonal centers.

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Because of these principle and dependent qualities between the notes and the scale certain notes are strongly attracted to resolve to principle tones. For example there is a strong pull of the leading tone wanting to resolve to the octave or the 4th degree(submediant) wanting to resolve to downwards to the 3rd degree(mediant).

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Dominant triads create a tension, by means of the passing notes of the scale that are included in the chord, that leads to resolution once the tonic chord is reached.

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Each degree of a scale has characteristics that contribute to our sense of key in the tonal center and where we are in the key.

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Harmony is the use of notes played simultaneously, called chords.

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In conclusion so far we can say that diatonic triads built on the tonic,subdominant, and dominant are major triads. The dominant triad gives us a sense of wanting to pull us towards the tonic and the subdominant triad offers a secondary type of tension that draws us to the dominant triad where we still want a sense of resolution and get drawn to the tonic.

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In the series of overtones and partials, the 3rd and 5th degree of a scale, the mediant and dominant as they are called are the next in line in terms of the strong power of attraction that the root note has. They are considered to be principle tones and they form points of repose in the scale.

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Rhythm,Melody, and Harmony are the three elements of music. By melody we are referring to the linear or horizontal succession of sequences of pitches, and by rhythm we mean the placement in time of notes by means of various note duration and rests. Harmony is the use of simultaneous notes, which are called chords.

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The most basic types of chords are triads.

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The remaining degrees of the scale can be considered passing tones and are dependent in nature, their melodic role is to offer step wise transition from one principle tone to another. These passing tones are also commonly referred to as neighboring tones in that their function is to decorate the principle tones, and there are different type of neighboring tones incomplete neighbors and complete neighbors.

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The tonic is the root note that gives us our strongest sense of key or tonal center.

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Triads are a series of stacked thirds and can be major,minor,diminished, or augmented.

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Triads are generally a series of stacked thirds, built on the tonic,mediant, and dominant notes of the scale.

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Triads built on the tonic gives us a very strong sense of the tonal center of the key we are in.

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Triads consist of a group of three notes and can have four different qualities Major,Minor, Augmented or Diminished.

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Triads that are built on the tonic,subdominat, and the dominant degrees are what we call primary triads. They indicate a strong sense of the tonal center. Now the tonic by defining it clearly and the dominant triad by creating tension that wants to resolve to the tonic offer us the strongest triads that we can get in any given diatonic key signature, and the subdominant by creating a secondary kind of secondary tension creates a triad that wants us to lead to the dominant.