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April 5, 2021

The Mediant Seventh

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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The Mediant Seventh