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Chord: A combination of two or more notes played simultaneously

Dominant Chord: Chord built on the fifth scale step, the V chord.

Chord Progression: A string of chords played in succession.

Chordal: Texture comprised of chords in which the pitches sound simultaneously: also homorhythmic.

Clavichord: Stringed keyboard instrument popular in the Renaissance and Baroque that is capable of unique expressive devices not possible on the harpsichord.

Chordophone: World music classification for instruments that produce sound from a vibrating string stretched between two points which is bowed, struck or plucked. The most common Western instruments of t . . . View Full Definition

Subdominant Chord: Chord built on the fourth scale step, the IV chord.

Tonic Chord: Triad built on the first scale tone, the I chord.

Notochord: In chordates, a cellular rod that runs the length of the body and provides dorsal support. Also, a structure of mesoderm in the embryo that will become the vertebrae of the spinal column. Th . . . View Full Definition

Ninth Chord: Five-tone chord spanning a ninth between its lowest and highest tones.