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Music theory

a chord whose root lies a third away from another chord and which shares only one or no common tones with it because of chromatic alteration.

In music theory, chromatic mediant refers to a chord whose root lies a third away from another chord and which shares only one or no common tones with it because of chromatic alteration. This meaning comes from Kopp (2002) in Chromatic transformations in nineteenth-century music.[1]

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chord3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs chromatic3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs mediant2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Kopp, D. (2002). Chromatic transformations in nineteenth-century music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511063725

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