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Posts Tagged ‘chords’

Chord Quality: Why Some Chords Sound Happy and Others Don’t

By Richard Kahn | July 28, 2026 | 0
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There are four triad qualities in Western music, and each has a distinct acoustic character — a personality, really — that the ear recognizes immediately.

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The Triad: Western Harmony’s Core Unit

By Richard Kahn | July 24, 2026 | 0
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If rhythm is the time dimension of music and melody is the pitch dimension, then harmony is the depth dimension — the vertical stacking of pitches that gives…

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