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What (& where) is this chord?
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Ricardo
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RE: What (& where) is this chord? (in reply to Dudnote)
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ORIGINAL: Dudnote I came across this chord whilst studying some de Falla. Two questions... What is it? And, can you come up with any examples of players using it (or some other inversion of it) in flamenco? 3 4 2 x 4 x A7#11/C#... This chord functions as II7 in G# phyrigian (minera if you want). The 5th is omitted, so we could also call this "A7b5/C#", but that is technically "wrong" in context of minera. We would normally use it in Root position, as guitar players. Perhaps the inversion is used as it was coming from a C# minor in root position? Like kiko says, context gives more meaning, and Falla had some crazy harmonies. Here is a more guitaristic voicing of a possible sequence: x-x-x- 9-8-9- 9-8-8- 9-7-6- x-x-x- 9-9-8- For the record "+" normally refers to augmented 5th chords (ie E#, not D# in this case). EDIT saw your other post that it is used in E major (relative major to G#phrygian), so he is borrowing from the relative key area. Basically he is doing a I-IV-I-IV sequence, where the IV is normally lydian sound anyway, but making it lydian Dominant. A lyd dom scale is basically E melodic minor, implying the chord borrows from the PARALELL minor key area (E maj -E minor etc) so you can see the multiple applications for this harmony. Ricardo
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