Word: triad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...latent anticipation more or less defined, of the sound of a certain one of its steps. This might in different compositions be any one of five or six different notes of the scale. In a music of chords composed under the influence of the feeling of tonality the triad on the tonic becomes the most important of all possible combinations of notes and appears at all points of close in a composition. At points of rest the partial satisfaction of the tonic demand given by the sound of the note A. fifth above (or dominant) suffices. To these two chords...
...like hypothesis would throw light upon the remarkable distinction in emotional character between the two forms of consonant chord, the Major and the Minor Triad. The former presents, through its fundamental tones, and their difference tones an approximately complete musical note; the Minor on the other hand gives fragments of three different notes. The Minor Triad is thus equivocal and unsatisfying, and to this fact may be due its tinge of melancholy...