chord - Music Glossary
Description: Music Glossary

Next: chromatic scale, Previous: central C, Up: Musical terms A-Z

### 1.41 chord

ES: acorde, I: accordo, F: accord, D: Akkord, NL: akkoord, DK: akkord, S: ackord, FI: sointu.

Three or more tones sounding simultaneously. In traditional European music the base chord is a triad consisting of 2 thirds. Major (major + minor →third) as well as minor (minor + major third) chords may be extended with more thirds. Four-tone seventh chords and five-tone ninth major chords are most often used as dominants (→functional harmony). A special case is chords having no third above the lower notes to define their quality as major or minor. Such chords are denoted open chords

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

Other languages: English.
Using automatic language selection.