a V(7)<\/sup> chord from a non-tonic key that is used to tonicize a target harmony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n \n \n
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secondary leading tone chord <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a diminished, half-diminished, or fully-diminished chord built on the leading tone of a non-tonic key that is used to tonicize a target harmony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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tonicization <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a progression that allows a target harmony to be heard fleetingly as a new tonic, due to the use of a chord or chords with secondary function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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pivot modulation <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a seamless key change that is made using a chord that exists diatonically in both the original and target keys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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mode mixture <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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the practice of using borrowed chords from the parallel key to enliven the harmonic landscape of a piece.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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borrowed chord <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a non-diatonic chord that exists in the parallel key.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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Picardy third <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a type of mode mixture wherein the chordal third of the final tonic harmony in a minor key piece is raised by a half step to create a major I chord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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text painting <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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the process of reflecting the meaning of a word or phrase using musical parameters such as harmony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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Neapolitan sixth chord <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a non-diatonic major triad in first inversion that is built on the lowered supertonic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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augmented sixth chord <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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a chromatic predominant that features an augmented sixth interval between the lowered submediant in the bass and the raised subdominant in an upper voice, along with tonic and potentially one other scale degree (the minor mediant or the supertonic).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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chromatic mediant <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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any non-diatonic harmony or key area whose root or tonic is a third interval away from the original tonal center, such as the major mediant in a major key.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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planing <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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the process of transposing a sonority to a different pitch level with all voices moving in parallel motion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n
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chromatic modulation <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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