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dominant seventh chord

noun

  1. a chord consisting of the dominant and the major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh above it. Its most natural resolution is to a chord on the tonic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But the vagueness adds a note of restlessness and instability to the entire organization, a dominant seventh chord crying to resolve into something simple and basic.

Ms. Fure isn’t interested in “noise for noise’s sake,” but in “specific colors, colors that don’t fit into a dominant seventh chord.”

But although the major triad and even the dominant seventh chord could be traced back to the harmonics, the minor triad proved a different matter; after many experiments Rameau gave it up, leaving it unaccounted for.

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