The root position of a
chord
Chord may refer to:
* Chord (music), an aggregate of musical pitches sounded simultaneously
** Guitar chord a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning
* Chord (geometry), a line segment joining two points on a curve
* Chord ( ...
is the
voicing of a
triad
Triad or triade may refer to:
* a group of three
Businesses and organisations
* Triad (American fraternities), certain historic groupings of seminal college fraternities in North America
* Triad (organized crime), a Chinese transnational orga ...
,
seventh chord, or
ninth chord in which the
root of the chord is the
bass note and the other chord factors are above it. In the root position, uninverted, of a C-
major triad, the bass is C — the root of the triad — with the third and the fifth stacked above it, forming the intervals of a third and a fifth above the root of C, respectively.
:
In the root position of G-
dominant seventh chord, the bass note is G, the root of the seventh chord.
:
In
figured bass, a root-position triad has no symbol, while a root-position seventh chord is notated with a "7".
According to ''The American History and Encyclopedia of Music:''
Note that any voicing above the bass is allowed. A root position, or uninverted, chord must have the root
chord factor in the bass, but it may have any arrangement of the third and fifth above that, including doubled notes, compound intervals, and omission (E-G-C, E-G-C-G', E-C'-G
'', etc.)
See also
*
Figured bass
*
Inversion (music)
*
First inversion
*
Second inversion
*
Third inversion
*
Fourth inversion
References
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Chord factors
Chords
Voicing (music)