Music GCSE
Chord symbols in contemporary notation
What Chord symbols in contemporary notation means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Chord symbols in contemporary notation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A capital letter alone means a major triad, a lower-case or 'm' suffix means minor, and a '7' adds a minor seventh above the root.
Topics that use Chord symbols in contemporary notation
- Component 3: Appraising - Musical language (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Continuo
- Key signatures to four sharps and four flats
- Major and minor triads
- Roman numeral chord labelling
- slide
- Accurate reading and writing of staff notation
- Accurately using
- musical vocabulary and terminology
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