NINTH CHORD Definition & Meaning

ninth chord

Music.

ninth chord

a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad with the seventh and ninth added above the root Often shortened toninth

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First recorded in 1945–50

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It ends hauntingly with an unresolved major ninth chord on the dominant of the dominant.

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A ninth chord consists of a fundamental with its third, fifth, seventh, and ninth.

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Palestrina, Monteverde and Peri, who are famed, the one for having discovered the dominant ninth chord, and the other for the invention of opera.

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