Is also shared with the relative major key, where it counts as the tonic seventh. Where chords belonging to both the minor scale and its relative major are being used, the identity of the ke...
March 29, 2021
The Supertonic Seventh
There are two supertonic sevenths available in the minor scale. The regular supertonic seventh from the natural minor scale is a half-diminished seventh chord. As such, we need to bear in mi...
March 22, 2021
The Tonic Seventh
The tonic seventh of the natural minor scale is a straight minor seventh chord. Regular pathways of progression for this chord are toward those chords that offer chordal support for the sixt...
March 15, 2021
Seventh Chords in the Minor Key
The minor seventh chord takes a standard minor chord and adds a minor seventh on top of the existing three notes. Minor seventh chords are “pensive, moody, introspective”. There are numerous...
March 8, 2021
The Sequential Cycle
By looking at the best regular pathways of progression for seventh chords—as we have been doing—it now becomes possible to make a number of basic observations. The first observation is that ...
March 1, 2021
Nondominant Seventh Chords
Nondominant seventh chords are those diatonic seventh chords that do not possess dominant function. Since only the dominant and leading-tone seventh chords are considered to have dominant fu...
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