seventh
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈsɛvənθ/
- Specialized
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séptima
- The AP course will cover material ranging from root progressions to supertonic sevenths and their inversions.
- flatted seventh
And when I'm saying like sevenths and sixths and things like that, that's how you would change the chord around to get a somewhat different sound for what you're playing.
- And when I'm saying like sevenths and sixths and things like that, that's how you would change the chord around to get a somewhat different sound for what you're playing.
Examples
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A fourth sound, then a fifth note, then a sixth and a seventh.
Fiction book (1995) -
Initially, patterns should contain the tonic note and strong key indicators, such as the leading tone and the seventh of the V chord.
Academic text (2006) -
So it's like minor seven, major seven.
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- Minor seventh might be better.
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The dominant seventh reveals the function of do in that key.
Academic text (2011) -
You can also do those seventh chords over that.
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Throughout this performance, there is some ambiguity in the intonation of the sevenths in this performance.
Academic text (2016) -
Throughout this performance, the flatted sevenths are intonated quite high, somewhere between the flatted and the natural pitch.
Academic text (2016) -
Another striking phrase is the opening line of the C section (mm. 1-2), where the melody ascends from the fourth to the fifth to the natural seventh, where it lingers before resolving upward to the tonic.
Academic text (2016) -
In music theory, the interval of a seventh consists of seven scale degrees between two notes.
Synonyms
The seventh note in a scale that makes the music feel tense
Idioms
- Archaic
A thing that is very weak, confusing, and far removed from the original idea
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.3
A chord of three notes with one extra note seven notes above the first
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- Specialized
A nerve in the head that controls the muscles of the face and taste at the front of the tongue
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Etymology
Seventh in music comes from the same root seven, which means 'seven steps'. So a musical seventh is the distance of seven notes up or down the scale, like jumping seven steps on a ladder, and that is why it sounds tense and wants to move on.