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The Viennese trichord.
Viennese trichord
Component intervals from root
tritone
minor second
root
Viennese trichord as dominant Playⓘ.
A Viennese trichord as a part of 6-z17, embellishing the first (C7) chord, from Bill Evans's opening to "What Is This Thing Called Love?"[1] Playⓘ.

In music theory, a Viennese trichord (Playⓘ) is prime form <0,1,6>; the pitch class set 0, 1, and 6, including 11 (since ic1 = -1 =11). Named for the Second Viennese School it has Forte #3-5. As opposed to Hindemith and 037 (Playⓘ), "Composers such as Webern, on the other hand, are partial to 016 trichords, given their 'more dissonant' inclusion of ics 1 and 6."[2]

In jazz and popular music, the chord usually has a dominant function, being the third, seventh, and added sixth/thirteenth of a dominant chord with elided root[1] (and fifth, see jazz chord).

Sources

  1. ^ a b Forte, Allen (2000). "Harmonic Relations: American Popular Harmonies (1925-1950) and Their European Kin", pp.5-36, Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music (Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 19, Part 1), p.7. Routledge. Covach, John and Everett, Walter; eds. ISBN 9057551209.
  2. ^ Henry Martin (Winter, 2000). "Seven Steps to Heaven: A Species Approach to Twentieth-Century Analysis and Composition", p.149, Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 129-168.


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