Ninth chord

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". In music theory, a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass.[1]

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Heinrich Schenker and also Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov allowed the substitution of the dominant seventh, leading-tone, and leading tone half-diminished seventh chords, but rejected the concept of a ninth chord on the basis that only that on the fifth scale degree (V9) was admitted and that inversion was not allowed of the ninth chord.[2][3]

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Resolutions given as examples by Schoenberg: V9 chords in
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root position
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1st
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2nd
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and 3rd inversion
resolving to I chords, followed by a ITemplate:Supsub chord[4]
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resolving to IV

Dominant ninth

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Voice leading for dominant ninth chords in the common practice period.[5]File:Ninth chord voice leading.mid
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Ninth (C9) vs added-ninth chord (Cadd9), distinguished, in academic textbooks and jazz & rock sheet music, by the presence or absence of a seventh.[6]File:Ninth vs added-ninth chord.mid
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Script error: No such module "Listen". There is a difference between a major ninth chord and a dominant ninth chord. A dominant ninth is the combination of a dominant chord (with a minor seventh) and a major ninth. A major ninth chord (e.g., Cmaj9), as an extended chord, adds the major seventh along with the ninth to the major triad. Thus, a Cmaj9 consists of C, E, G, B and D. When the symbol "9" is not preceded by the word "major" or "maj" (e.g., C9), the chord is a dominant ninth. That is, the implied seventh chord is a dominant seventh, i.e. a major triad plus the minor seventh, to which the ninth is added: e.g., a C9 consists of C, E, G, B and D. C dominant ninth (C9) would usually be expected to resolve to an F major chord (the implied key, C being the dominant of F). The ninth is commonly chromatically altered by half-step either up or down to create more tension and dissonance. Fétis tuned the chord 4:5:6:7:9.[7]

In the common practice period, "the root, 3rd, 7th, and 9th are the most common factors present in the V9 chord," with the 5th, "typically omitted".[5] The ninth and seventh usually resolve downward to the fifth and third of I.[5]

Example of tonic dominant ninth chords include Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" and Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music".Template:Sfn James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)" features a striking dominant 9th arpeggio played staccato at the end of the opening 12-bar sequence. The opening phrase of Chopin's well-known "Minute Waltz" climaxes on a dominant 9th chord:

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Chopin Waltz in D, Op. 64, No. 1
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Chopin Waltz in D, Op. 64, No. 1

César Franck's Violin Sonata in A Major opens with a dominant ninth chord (E9) in the piano part. When the violin enters in the fifth bar, its melody articulates an arpeggio of this chord.

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Cesar Franck Violin Sonata in A major, opening bars
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Cesar Franck Violin Sonata in A major, opening bars

Debussy's "Hommage a Rameau", the second of his first Book of Images for piano solo climaxes powerfully on a dominant 9th, expressed both as a chord and as a wide-ranging arpeggio:

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Debussy, from Hommage a Rameau
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Debussy, from Hommage a Rameau

The starting point of Karlheinz Stockhausen's piece for vocal sextet, Stimmung (1968)[8] is a chord consisting of the notes B, F, B, D, A and C.[9] According to Nicholas Cook,[10] Stimmung could, in terms of conventional tonal harmony, be viewed as "simply a dominant ninth chord that is subject to timbral variation. The notes the performers sing are harmonics 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 of the implied but absent fundamental—the B flat below the bass clef."

Dominant minor ninth

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(Dominant minor ninth chord on C)

A dominant minor ninth chord consists of a dominant seventh chord and a minor ninth. In C: C E G B D. Fétis tuned the chord 8:10:12:14:17.[7] In notation for jazz and popular music, this chord is often denoted, e.g., C79. In Schubert's Erlkönig, a terrified child calls out to his father when he sees an apparition of the sinister Elf King. The dissonant voicing of the dominant minor ninth chord used here (C79) is particularly effective in heightening the drama and sense of threat.

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   \tuplet 3/2 {r8 <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> \f <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>} \tuplet 3/2 {<c' c> <c' c> <c' c>}}
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   <aes,, aes,>4 r r <a, a>(<bes, bes>2) <g, g> <e, e>}

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(Excerpt from Schubert's ErlkönigLink to passage)

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(Excerpt from Mariah Carey – All I want for Christmas is You)

Minor ninth

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(A minor ninth chord)

The minor ninth chord consists of a minor seventh chord and a major ninth. The formula is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. This chord is written as Am9. This chord has a more "bluesy" sound and fits very well with the dominant ninth.

Major ninth

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Notable examples

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Parallel root-position bop voicings that open the choruses of Thelonious Monk's 1959 "Monk's Mood" feature a (C) major ninth chord.[11]File:Monk's Mood major ninth chord.mid

The major ninth chord consists of a major seventh chord and a major ninth. The formula is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. This chord is written as Cmaj9.


Relation to other chords with the ninth

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Minor 6/9 C chord, featuring the major sixth degree of the jazz minor scale.[12] Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handler
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Second factor (D), in red, of a C added second chord, Cadd2. Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handler

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The second degree is octave equivalent to the ninth. The ninth chord could be alternatively notated as seventh added second chord (C7add2), from where omitting the 3rd produces the seventh suspended second chord (C7sus2).

An add9 chord, or added ninth chord, is any chord with an added ninth – Cadd9 consists of C, E, G and D, Cmadd9 consists of C, E flat, G, and D, Cdimadd9 consists of C, E flat, G flat, and D, etc. Added ninth chords differ from other ninth chords because the seventh is not necessarily included. An add9 can also be added to an interval, like a C5, resulting in a C5add9 chord which consists of C and G (C5) with D as an added 9 (C, G, D). Note that if the note is within an octave from the root, it is a second, not a ninth. In the case of C, D, G, within a fifth rather than spanning a ninth, this is a Csus2 chord, where the second, D, replaces the third, E (C, D, G instead of C, E, G).

See also

References

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  1. Sadie, Stanley, ed. (1980). "Ninth chord", p. 252, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 13. Template:ISBN.
  2. Schenker, Heinrich (1980). Harmony, p. 190. Template:ISBN.
  3. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Practical Manual of Harmony / Ukrainian edition - Kyiv, 1948. - p.52
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  7. a b Fétis, François-Joseph and Arlin, Mary I. (1994). Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie, p. 139n9. Template:ISBN.
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  9. Stimmung, British Library
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  11. Walter Everett (Autumn, 2004). "A Royal Scam: The Abstruse and Ironic Bop-Rock Harmony of Steely Dan", pp. 208–209, Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 201–235.
  12. Berg, Shelly (2005). Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory, Book 3, p. 90. Template:ISBN.
  13. Jazz Lessons

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