Timeline for Diatonic chords: Definition, purpose, and application
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 3:59 | history | edited | xor7ommy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 3:50 | vote | accept | xor7ommy | ||
| Nov 12, 2015 at 3:46 | history | edited | Caleb Hines | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added "definition" to title, since answering this question involved correcting a faulty idea of what diatonic chords are.
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 23:23 | comment | added | xor7ommy | I first heard of diatonic triads at the link below and misinterpreted them as being different from what I thought to be a normal triad. musictheory.net/lessons/43 | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 22:20 | comment | added | user1044 | I have never heard the use of the term "generic third" before. Is that a term you invented? Conventionally, there are two different musical intervals labeled as "third": the major third and the minor third. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 22:17 | comment | added | user1044 | "How/where they can be applied, I.E. what can be/has been done with them?" The answer is they are used, constantly, in virtually all the music you have ever heard. All Western music, from the last 400 or 500 years up until today, is based on diatonic chords. If you are unaware of this, then you would benefit from studying some music theory. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 22:00 | comment | added | user1044 | The diatonic triad chords are a mathematical result of the notes in the scale and the harmonic series. To object to there being a diminished chord in a major scale would be like saying to a mathematician that you object to the existence of prime numbers, or resent the fact that Pi (3.14159...) is not a whole number. Music is mathematics and physics. It is art, but it also follows from science, and theory follows practice. The more you study as a musician, the more sense all of this will make to you. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 3:22 | answer | added | Caleb Hines | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | user28 | Scales and keys don't define chords, and you'll find that chords typically are built from the notes of the key. When they aren't, the purpose is to achieve a particular sound or feeling -- including but far from limited to "out of place". There is a lot more to music than keys, which are arbitrary. | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 21:28 | answer | added | Michael Curtis | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 21:04 | history | asked | xor7ommy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |