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Introduction to Functional Harmony — ii, iii, vi, and vii° Chords

The ii chord: the supertonic. The diatonic triad built from scale degree 2, called the ii chord, is a minor predominant chord. It consists of scale degrees 2, ...

5.4 The iii (III) Chord - AP Music Theory - Fiveable

Review 5.4 The iii (III) Chord for your test on Unit 5 – Chord Progressions and Predominant Function. For students taking AP Music Theory.

What determines the function of a chord? - Music Stack Exchange

In a way you can say that function does not care about any particular scale. It some ways function is ambivalent about mode/chord quality except ...

Building Blocks: The Job Of A Chord - YouTube

When it comes to understanding most modern music, probably the most powerful tool in a theorist's belt is the concept of functional harmony.

Diatonic Chord Functions - Global Guitar Network

Each of the seven diatonic chords fall into one of three categories; Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant. These are called their Diatonic Chord Functions.

6.1 Functional Harmony: Tutorial - Iowa State University Digital Press

Functional harmony in tonal music centers around the idea that tonic serves as the “home base” in a key and chords built on each scale degree in the scale have ...

Harmonic Function - Chordal

Harmonic Function is the description of how chords in a key behave. Studying a chord's function can help us define and describe its sound.

Harmonic Functions : The III and VI Degrees - Teoria

... with both tonic and dominant chords. In the next table, we summarize the discussed chord functions: dominant, VII. V. III, weak. tonic, I. VI. subdominant, IV.

Functional Harmony - BEYOND MUSIC THEORY

The functionality of a given chord is based on where the chord “wants” to go next because a harmonic progression has two dimensions: the chord's pitches and how ...

Chord functions. What are they for? - Jazz Guitar Online

for me in jazz almost every harmonic unit can become a function and an expression of function (be a chord)... Like mi7 chord may function as ...

What are Harmonic Functions? How to use them? - Simplifying Theory

Harmonic function is a denomination that represents the sensation (emotion) that a certain chord transmits to the listener.

18. Seventh Chords – Fundamentals, Function, and Form

A seventh chord consists of a triad with an added pitch sounding a seventh above the root. Because seventh chords contain four distinct pitches.

Harmonic Functions for Songwriters - Organizing Sound

Each of the seven chords in a major key can be thought of as playing one of three harmonic functions: tonic, dominant, or subdominant.

Harmonic Progression 2: Chord Function - YouTube

In this video, Dr. Anthony Fesmire, presents the concept of "Chord Function" as part of a series of videos on creating strong chord ...

Weighted chord functions - ScienceDirect.com

We introduce weighted chord functions which incorporate the metric information into the angle function. They enhance the performance of the angle chord function ...

Chord function (wingdi.h) - Win32 apps - Microsoft Learn

The Chord function draws a chord (a region bounded by the intersection of an ellipse and a line segment, called a secant).

Chord families (harmonic functions) - Andy French's Musical ...

In this post the term chord families is used to group chords with similar properties in a more interesting and useful way.

How Functional Harmony Works - Art of Composing

When you stack chords on all of the notes, you get the diatonic harmony of that scale. For now, we aren't going to worry too much about 7th ...

27. Applied Chords – Fundamentals, Function, and Form

Applied chords are modeled on familiar dominant-function chords (V, V7, viio, viio7, and viiø7) and suggest a temporary tonic function for some chord other than ...

The Essentials of Functional Harmony - BEYOND MUSIC THEORY

Functional harmony is a term used to describe the relationships between chords in music. It refers to the idea that chords have specific functions within a key.


Chord function

The term chord function may refer to: Diatonic function – in music, the role of a chord in relation to a diatonic key; In mathematics, the length of a chord of a circle as a trigonometric function of the length of the corresponding arc; see in particular Ptolemy's table of chords.