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Diminished triad, the Glossary

In music theory, a diminished triad (also known as the minor flatted fifth) is a triad consisting of two minor thirds above the root.^[1]

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Augmented triad

An augmented triad is a chord, made up of two major thirds (an augmented fifth). Diminished triad and augmented triad are chords.

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"Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954 that became a UK number 1, and US number 10 hit and Gold record for English singer David Whitfield in 1954, and a number 4 hit for the American rock group Jay and the Americans in 1965.

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Chord notation

Musicians use various kinds of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. Diminished triad and chord notation are chords.

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Common practice period

In European art music, the common practice period was the period of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition.

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Consonance and dissonance

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.

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Contrapuntal motion

In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two melodic lines with respect to each other.

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Daryl Hall

Daryl Franklin Hohl (born October 11, 1946), known professionally as Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter and musician.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Degree (music)

In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.

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Diminished seventh chord

The diminished seventh chord is a four-note chord (a seventh chord) composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh above the root: (1, 3, 5, 7).

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Dominant (music)

In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale.

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Dominant seventh chord

In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a seventh chord, composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh.

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Don't Look Back in Anger

"Don't Look Back in Anger" is a song by English rock band Oasis.

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Everytime You Go Away

"Everytime You Go Away" is a song written and composed by Daryl Hall.

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Fifth (chord)

In music, the fifth factor of a chord is the note or pitch that is the fifth scale degree, counting the root or tonal center.

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First inversion

The first inversion of a chord is the voicing of a triad, seventh chord, or ninth chord in which the third of the chord is the bass note and the root a sixth above it. Diminished triad and first inversion are chords.

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Five-limit tuning

Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument that obtains the frequency of each note by multiplying the frequency of a given reference note (the base note) by products of integer powers of 2, 3, or 5 (prime numbers limited to 5 or lower), such as.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat means lower in pitch.

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Genesis of a Music

Genesis of a Music is a book first published in 1949 by microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901–1974).

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Georg Andreas Sorge

Georg Andreas Sorge (21 March 1703 in Mellenbach, Thuringia – 4 April 1778) was an organist, composer, and, most notably, theorist.

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Half-diminished seventh chord

In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord (also known as a half-diminished chord or a minor seventh flat five chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh (1, 3, 5, 7).

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Harmonic seventh

The harmonic seventh interval, also known as the septimal minor seventh, or subminor seventh, is one with an exact 7:4 ratio (about 969 cents).

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Harry Partch

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.

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Heinrich Schenker

Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was a Galician-born Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis.

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Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability.

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Jay and the Americans

Jay and the Americans are an American rock group who formed in the late 1950s.

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Jazz minor scale

The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.

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Major scale

The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.

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Minor chord

In music theory, a minor chord is a chord that has a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. Diminished triad and minor chord are chords.

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Minor scale

In western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).

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Minor third

In music theory, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones.

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Music theory

Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Predominant chord

In music theory, a predominant chord (also pre-dominant) is any chord which normally resolves to a dominant chord. Diminished triad and predominant chord are chords.

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Prolongation

In music theory, prolongation is the process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is considered to govern spans of music when not physically sounding.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Root (chord)

In the music theory of harmony, the root is a specific note that names and typifies a given chord.

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Root position

The root position of a chord is the voicing of a triad, seventh chord, or ninth chord in which the root of the chord is the bass note and the other chord factors are above it. Diminished triad and root position are chords.

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Santo & Johnny

Santo & Johnny were an American rock and roll instrumental duo of Italian descent from Brooklyn, New York, composed of brothers Santo Farina (born October 24, 1937) and Johnny Farina (born April 30, 1941).

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Secondary chord

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Sensations of Tone

On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik), commonly referred to as Sensations of Tone, is a foundational work on music acoustics and the perception of sound by Hermann von Helmholtz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_triad

Also known as 3-10, Bdim, Cdim, Ddim, Diminished chord, Diminished triad chord, Edim, Equivocal Chord, Fdim, Gdim.

, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Tonicization, Triad (music), Tritone, 12 equal temperament.

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