LO2 Know about chords and chord progressions

Types of Chords:

• Major
• Minor
• Dominant (V)
• Augmented
• Diminished
• 7th chords

Chord Progressions:

• Standard Progressions- Diatonic and Chromatic forms

27th September 2012

Major chords in root, 1st and 2nd inversions and Minor chords in root, 1st and 2nd inversions.

 

 

 

 

Dominant (V) chords and V7 chords on every major key

28th September 2012

Chord analysis of the opening bars of Brahms Intermezzo op.118 No.2
https://soundcloud.com/odance/brahms-intermezzo-preview

Click the link below for a full analysis:

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18th October 2012

 Today we played a series of diatonic chord progressions together as a class. I used cubase and Aria 64 to play and Sibelius to write in what I played. Underneath are the diatonic chords belonging to both the keys of Db major and Gb major.

Underneath: The diatonic chord progressions in the major # keys: (C major) G major, D major,A major,E major, B major and F# major. (played through cubase and transcripted onto Sibelius.)

19th October 2012

Today I wrote out an example for four different forms of a 7th chord and then some diminished 7th and augmented chords on all degrees of the C major scale, and some augmented 6ths chords.

Diminished 7ths

Diminished 7ths are a vital part of composition. They can guide the musician from one note to the next chromatically. For example, if we were to go from C to A, one might insert a diminished 7th on the D#  to guide us to the A chromatically. Diminished 7ths are in all types of music, as a classical pianist, I notice them more often in music of the Romantic period when composers started to explore chromatisism as a way of melodic elaboration.

 

Augmented chords and 6ths
Augmented chords are important when it comes to resolution. The raised 5th on the V can lead seamlessly to the 3rd degree (mediant) of the tonic (I). For example, the first chord below: C (V)major augmented has a raised 5th (G#) which would move up one semitone to A which is the 3rd degree of the F (I) major scale. With the resolution to the tonic, augmented chords do not sound so discordent.

These are perfect cadences, in each major white key.