Chords Flashcards
What is a chord made up of degrees 1, 3 and 5 called?
Triad
What intervals are required to make a major chord?
Major 3rd between bottom and middle note
Minor 3rd between middle and top note
What intervals are required to make a minor chord?
Minor 3rd between bottom and middle note
Major 3rd between middle and top note
What intervals are required to make a diminished chord?
Minor 3rd between all notes
What intervals are required to make an augmented chord?
Major 3rd between all notes
What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?
Root
What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?
Root
What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?
2nd
What note is in the bass if the chord is a 3rd inversion chord?
The flattened 7th
In a dominant 7th chord, starting on a C, what are the 4 notes needed?
C, E, G and Bb
What are the notes in a C7 chord?
C, E, G and Bb
What are the notes in a C major 7 chord?
C, E, G and B
What are the notes in a C9 chord?
C, E, G, Bb and D
What is the highest extended chord you can go to?
A 13th (if you write a note 15 notes above the root, you’ll start back at the beginning of the chord again)
How is an added chord different form an extended chord?
You can choose which notes to add to an added chord whereas an extended chord is built on multiple stacked 3rds
How do you create a Neapolitan chord?
Take the 2nd degree of the scale - move that note down a semitone - create a major triad built on that note - put it in first inversion
What primary chord can a Neapolitan chord most easily replace?
Chord IV - same bass note
How do you make an Italian augmented 6th chord?
Take chord IV of a major key
Put it in 1st inversion
Lower the bottom note by a semitone
Raise the top note by a semitone
What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a French augmented 6th chord?
A tone above the bottom note
What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a German augmented 6th chord?
A minor 3rd above the bottom note
What other chord does a German augmented 6th chord sound like?
A dominant 7th
“A leading note of a scale must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?
Rise
“A flattened 7th of a chord must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?
Fall
What chord would follow a G7 chord?
C
What 3 notes make a Csus4 chord?
C, F and G
In a major scale, which chords are major?
I, IV and V
In a major scale, which chords are minor?
ii, iii and vi
In a major scale, what type of chord is chord vii?
Diminished
What type of chord is made up of the notes C and F#?
Augmented 4th
Tritone
Not a diminished 5th
In the key of C major, what chord would you assume if you only had B and D?
G major 1st inversion
What chords make a perfect cadence?
V-I
What chords make an imperfect cadence?
Anything to V
What chords make a plagal cadence?
IV-I
What chords make an interrupted cadence?
V-vi
In a minor key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?
Major
In a major key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?
Minor
What degree of the scale is the relative minor of a major scale?
6
What notes make up a C11 chord?
C, E, G, Bb, D and F
What chords are primary chords?
I, IV and V
What type of chord helps to create a smooth modulation from one key to another?
A pivot chord
What is a pivot chord?
A chord that belongs to two keys and can be used to help modulate from one of those keys to the other
What 2 chords are needed to make a tonicisation?
V and I
What cadence is made from chords V-vi?
Interrupted
What cadence is most likely to be heard at the end of a piece of music?
Perfect
