In
music
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, an augmented major seventh chord or major seventh sharp five chord is a
seventh chord
A seventh chord is a chord (music), chord consisting of a triad (music), triad plus a note forming an interval (music), interval of a Interval (music), seventh above the chord's root (chord), root. When not otherwise specified, a "seventh chord" ...
composed of a
root
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,
major third
In music theory, a third is a Interval (music), musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval (music)#Number, Interval number for more details), and the major third () is a third spanning four Semitone, half steps or two ...
,
augmented fifth
In Western classical music, an augmented fifth () is an interval produced by widening a perfect fifth by a chromatic semitone.Benward & Saker (2003). ''Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I'', p.54. . For instance, the interval from C to G i ...
, and
major seventh
In music from Western culture, a seventh is a interval (music), musical interval encompassing seven staff positions (see Interval (music)#Number, Interval number for more details), and the major seventh is one of two commonly occurring sevenths. ...
(1, 3, 5, 7). It can be viewed as an
augmented triad
An augmented triad is a chord, made up of two major thirds (an augmented fifth). The term ''augmented triad'' arises from an augmented triad being considered a major chord whose top note (fifth) is raised. When using popular-music symbols, i ...
with an additional major seventh. When using
popular-music symbols, it is denoted by e.g. +
7. For example, the augmented major seventh chord built on A, written as e.g. A+
7, has pitches A-C-E-G:
:
The chord can be represented by the
integer notation .
The augmented major seventh chord is associated with the
augmented scale[Coker, Jerry (1976). ''The Jazz Idiom'', p.66. .] (see
jazz scale
A jazz scale is any musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from European classical music, Western European classical music, including the diatonic scale, diatonic, whole-tone scale, whole-tone, octatonic scale, oc ...
and
chord-scale system
The chord-scale system is a method of matching, from a list of possible chord (music), chords, a list of possible scale (music), scales.Mervyn Cooke, David Horn (2003). ''Cambridge Companions to Music, The Cambridge Companion to Jazz'', p.266. . ...
). This chord also comes from the third mode of both the
harmonic minor and the
melodic minor
In Classical_music, Western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three Scale (music), scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).
...
scales. For example, the third
mode of the A melodic minor scale outlines an augmented major seventh chord, as shown below.
:
As with
dominant seventh chord
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s,
nondominant seventh chords including the augmented major seventh usually progress according to the
circle
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, thus III+
M7 resolves to vi or
VI. For example, in the key of A minor, C maj
75 usually resolves to F.
Augmented major seventh chord table
:
See also
*
Jazz chord
Jazz chords are chords, chord voicings and chord symbols that jazz musicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and theory, most triads that appear in lead sheets or fake books can have sevenths added to t ...
References
Bibliography
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Seventh chords