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why? that's the right term for it. it's not anywhere close to a major I chord without the fifth! never underestimate what other kinds of nerds you may encount
by tumult 17y ago
why? that's the right term for it.
it's not anywhere close to a major I chord without the fifth!
never underestimate what other kinds of nerds you may encounter in the wild :]
- alextp 17y agoTechnically it can be a major I chord even without the tonic (listen to some schoenberg, he likes to do this), it is just difficult to get right.
- WilliamLP 17y agoA major I chord without the fifth is two pitches, the first and third degrees of the major scale. That's what I meant. Why is that not anywhere close, or even not precisely the same? I did not mean a major third interval. They could have sung the correct interval, but the wrong pitches. For what I did mean, I do insist that in the limited terminology of music, chord is a better fit because it implies the pitch where interval doesn't. This necessitates terms like "Power Chord". Pedants are going to say this is wrong. (And oh yeah a Koala Bear isn't really a Bear either.) But it does get around a limitation of the language.
- Goladus 17y agoThe fifth is hardly essential to achieve the sound of a major I chord. Fifths are omitted all the time in classical music to avoid parallel voice-leading.