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STEVEN VANDE MOORTELE, Murder, Trauma, and the Half-Diminished Seventh Chord in Schoenberg’s “Song of the Wood Dove”, Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 39, No. 1 (SPRING 2017), pp. 66-82 ...
After getting a grip on major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords, I think it's important to study fully diminished 7th chords and augmented triads, as they function harmonically in all 12 ...
Need a practical way to get comfortable with jazz chords? This single exercise will help you learn to voice major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, and half-diminished chords in every key. Perfect for jazz ...
Best digital pianos: options for every level and budget Get started with the best keyboards for beginners and kids 1. Double diminished basics Ex. 1a illustrates the idea of this scale, with a root of ...
Adrian P. Childs, Moving beyond Neo-Riemannian Triads: Exploring a Transformational Model for Seventh Chords, Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 42, No. 2, Neo-Riemannian Theory (Autumn, 1998), pp. 181-193 ...
(Image credit: Apple) Step 1: A diminished seventh chord is a four-note chord made from notes that are spaced apart by an interval of three semitones. You can therefore make a Cdim7, for example, by ...
As I listened outside the porch on that bleak Christmas Day, I realised that the chord on “Word” (”of the Father”), is, for me, when Christmas happens. The chord itself is, I am told, a B ...
In contrast, a tune from the Songbook might use a Baskin-Robbins shop full of chords and chord flavors—7 th s and 9 th s, half and fully diminished, various inversions, and more.
Willcocks, following a rising figure full of anticipation, places an explosive, half-diminished seventh chord under the text “Word,” resolving it elaborately over the next few measures.