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Major seventh chord

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In music, a major seventh chord is a seventh chord where the "third" note is a major third above the root, and the "seventh" note is a major seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note). [1]

69 relations: Allen Forte, America (band), Antônio Carlos Jobim, Band on the Run (song), Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bread (band), Burt Bacharach, Carly Simon, Carole King, Chicago (band), Chick Corea, Chord progression, Chromaticism, Colour My World (Chicago song), Country rock, Dindi, Disco, Dominant seventh chord, Eleventh chord, Erik Satie, Factor (chord), Freddie Hubbard, Funk, Gymnopédies, Hal David, Him (Rupert Holmes song), Imagine (John Lennon song), Inner Urge, Joe Henderson, John Lennon, Just intonation, Lady Bird (composition), Little sunflower, Major scale, Major seventh, Major third, Make It with You, Michel Legrand, Middle of the road (music), Minor scale, Minor seventh, Minor seventh chord, Music, Musical tuning, Ninth chord, Paul McCartney and Wings, Perfect fifth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rock music, Root (chord), ..., Rupert Holmes, Seventh (chord), Seventh chord, So Very Hard to Go, Soft rock, Soul music, Subtonic, Tadd Dameron, The Beatles, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Third (chord), Tin Man (song), Tones for Joan's Bones, Tonic (music), Tower of Power, Under the Bridge, You've Made Me So Very Happy, 1979 (song). Expand index (19 more) »

Allen Forte

Allen Forte (December 23, 1926 – October 16, 2014) was an American music theorist and musicologist.

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America (band)

America is a British-American rock band formed in England in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley.

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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Band on the Run (song)

"Band on the Run" is the title song of Paul McCartney and Wings' 1973 album Band on the Run.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Bread (band)

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Burt Bacharach

Burt Freeman Bacharach (born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of popular hit songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with popular lyricist Hal David.

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Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author.

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Carole King

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968 before shortening the name in 1970.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chord progression

A chord progression or harmonic progression is a succession of musical chords, which are two or more notes, typically sounded simultaneously.

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Chromaticism

Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale.

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Colour My World (Chicago song)

"Colour My World" is a song written by American musician James Pankow, one of the founding members of the rock/jazz fusion band Chicago.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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Dindi

"Dindi" (- which sounds like Jin-jee in English) is a song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Aloysio de Oliveira.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Dominant seventh chord

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

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Eleventh chord

In music theory, an eleventh chord is a chord that contains the tertian extension of the eleventh.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Factor (chord)

In music, a factor or chord factor is a member or component of a chord.

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Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gymnopédies

The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

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Hal David

Harold Lane "Hal" David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist.

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Him (Rupert Holmes song)

"Him" is a song written and recorded by American singer and songwriter Rupert Holmes.

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Imagine (John Lennon song)

"Imagine" is a song written and performed by English musician John Lennon.

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Inner Urge

Inner Urge is an album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson released in 1966, the fourth recorded as a leader for Blue Note Records.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation (sometimes abbreviated as JI) or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers.

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Lady Bird (composition)

"Lady Bird" is a sixteen-bar jazz standard by Tadd Dameron.

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Little sunflower

Little sunflower is a common name for several plants and may refer to.

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Major scale

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

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Major seventh

In classical music from Western culture, a seventh is a musical interval encompassing seven staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major seventh is one of two commonly occurring sevenths.

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Major third

In classical music from Western culture, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third is a third spanning four semitones.

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Make It with You

"Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.

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Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road (MOR) loosely describes any type of music that falls between popular music and art music, and includes the work of serious composers who write in a lighter style than normal.

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Minor seventh

In music theory, a minor seventh is one of two musical intervals that span seven staff positions.

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Minor seventh chord

In music, a minor seventh chord is any nondominant seventh chord where the "third" note is a minor third above the root.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Ninth chord

In music theory, a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass.

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Paul McCartney and Wings

Paul McCartney and Wings, also known simply as Wings, were a rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.

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Perfect fifth

In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Root (chord)

In music theory, the concept of root is the idea that a chord can be represented and named by one of its notes.

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Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author.

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Seventh (chord)

In music, the seventh factor of a chord is the note or pitch seven scale degrees above the root or tonal center.

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Seventh chord

A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root.

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So Very Hard to Go

"So Very Hard to Go" is a torch song performed by American rhythm and blues band Tower of Power, issued as the second single from their eponymous third album.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Subtonic

In music, the subtonic is the scale degree below the tonic or, more specifically, the flattened seventh (VII): the lowered or minor seventh degree of the scale, a whole step below the tonic, as opposed to the leading tone, which is only a half step below the tonic.

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Tadd Dameron

Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 French-West German musical-romantic drama film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.

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Third (chord)

In music, the third factor of a chord is the note or pitch two scale degrees above the root or tonal center.

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Tin Man (song)

"Tin Man" is a 1974 song by the pop rock band America.

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Tones for Joan's Bones

Tones for Joan's Bones is the debut album by American jazz pianist Chick Corea.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music and traditional music.

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Tower of Power

Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968.

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Under the Bridge

"Under the Bridge" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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You've Made Me So Very Happy

"You've Made Me So Very Happy" is a song written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy, and was released first as a single in 1967 by Brenda Holloway on the Tamla label.

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1979 (song)

"1979" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins.

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References

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

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