There’s Even More to Playing the Piano

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Chapter 12 - Chromatic Chords

Chromatic chords are chords that contain notes other than those in the key. It is sometimes helpful to consider chromatic chords to be chords that have been borrowed briefly from another related key. Minor IVMusic in a major key will sometimes borrow chord iv from the minor mode: Major IIn the baroque era, music in a minor key would sometimes end with a major chord. This is known as a Tierce de Picardie: The harmony in a minor key tends to be based on the harmonic minor scale,...

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