Whatever you’ve planned for the rest of the day will have to wait until you’ve sung the song’s final note-its tonic-to yourself:Ī scale is the set of notes belonging to a key. To appreciate the power of tonal gravity, try halting the opening phrase of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” a note before its conclusion: As planets orbit a sun, so the notes of music in a key, or tonal music, revolve around a central note, or tonic. The softer-edged minor seventh (which also drops by in "Misty"Īnd the brooding half-diminished seventh:Ī key is a “gravitational” system governing the notes (and chords) of a piece.
(appearing at a lounge near you in popular ballads like “Misty” Other common seventh chords are the major seventh ♫ If the truth be known, when the landlord shows up at the heroine’s door, it’s not the diminished triad (A cadence is a chord progression that closes a musical phrase.)Īlso common is the diminished seventh chord. Is familiar from its use in countless cadences. Four-note chords are in fact quite common, especially the sort known as seventh chords. ♫, the menacing landlord by a diminished triadĪnd a locomotive’s oncoming chugging-the landlord, in a novel construction of his eviction rights, has tied the heroine to some handy tracks-by a series of repeated augmented triads:Īs I've suggested, some chords have more than three notes. ♫, the afflicted heroine (rent trouble) by a minor triad (A triad is a three-note chord.) A good way to distinguish these triads from one another is to think of the piano accompaniment to a silent movie melodrama.
The simplest chords are the major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads. (Robert Browning’s way of saying this was that out of three sounds comes “not a fourth sound, but a star.”) A chord strikes the ear as more, and other, than the sum of its notes. I'll be using some in this chapter, and thought it might be a help to the non-expert if I define a few.Īt the risk of confusing the non-expert with the ignoramus, I'll begin with a definition of harmony itself: the aspect of music involving the construction and progression of chords.Ī chord consists of three or more different notes sounded simultaneously.
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