TRIADIC Definition & Meaning

triadic

[ trahy-ad-ik ]

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adjective

being or relating to a triad, or group of three, especially a group of three closely related people or things:
Red and blue form two parts of a triadic color scheme that also includes yellow or a neutral color such as black, gray, or white.
Music. being or relating to a chord of three tones, especially one consisting of a particular tone with its major or minor third and its perfect, augmented, or diminished fifth:
We can add to this progression by putting a triadic major chord at the beginning of each bar.

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Origin of triadic¹

First recorded in 1780–90; triad ( def ) + -ic ( def )

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From there, I enjoyed the first 75 minutes of a radical yet sensitive take on Morton Feldman’s “Triadic Memories,” with Conrad Tao on piano and Tyshawn Sorey on percussion.

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Next up for Tao is an appearance at Bang on a Can‘s Long Play Festival in Brooklyn on the first weekend of May. The pianist here will be joined by another exceptional modernist, percussionist Tyshawn Sorey, for a performance of Feldman’s “Triadic Memories.”

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But it does show that the memories of triadic harmony, so close to the Russian tradition, return in new ways in the works of both Feldman and Glass.

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Cordoni describes this resolution strategy involving a third pig as a “triadic conflict mechanism.”

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In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony.

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