An added tone chord is a triadic chord with an extra "added" note, such as the added sixth. This includes chords with an added thirteenth and farther "extensions", but that do not include the intervening thirds as in an extended chord. In music or music theory, a triad is a tonal or diatonic tertian trichord. ... In music and music theory, a chord (from the middle English cord, short for accord) is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ... In music, see the intervals: Major sixth minor sixth The submediant, and the chord built on the submediant, is often simply called the sixth as it is the sixth scale degree. ... Extended chords are tertian chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh, including all the thirds in between the seventh and the extended note. ...

An added sixth chord ends songs including Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'", Carl Perkins' "Movie Magg" and "Blue Suede Shoes", Ronnie Hawkins' "Red Hot", Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music", and Scotty Moore's accompaniment in Elvis Presley's "That's All Right (Mama)". Hank Williams Sr. ... Carl Perkins Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 - January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music that evolved at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s. ... Ronnie Hawkins, born January 10, 1935 in Huntsville, Arkansas, United States, is a pioneer Rock and Roll musician. ... Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (born October 18, 1926), better known as Chuck Berry, is a highly influential American guitarist, singer and composer. ... Winfield Scott Scotty Moore III (born December 27, 1931 near Gadsden, Tennessee) is a legendary American guitarist and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll or The King, was an American singer and actor. ...

An example of an added tone chord by Igor Stravinsky: Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky (Russian: ) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian-American composer of modern classical music. ...

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (869x235, 9 KB)Added note chord in Stravinskys Symphony of Psalms (3rd movement) Source Marquis, G. Welton (1964). ...

An added tone (G) chord with mixed thirds, a major third and minor third, by William Schuman: The musical interval of a Major third is the relationship between the first note (the root or tonic) and the third note in a major scale. ... The musical interval of a minor third is the relationship between the first note (the root or tonic) and the third note in a minor scale. ... William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 - February 15, 1992) was an American composer. ...

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (869x147, 8 KB)Mixed thirds in William Schumans . ...

In such cases the thirds are usually seperated by an octave or more.

Suspended chords

A suspended chord is a chord in which the third is replaced or accompanied by either a fourth or a major second, although the fourth is far more common. In music, see the following intervals: Major third Minor third The mediant, and the chord built on the mediant, is often called simply the third, as it is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ... In music, see: Perfect fourth Augmented fourth or tritone The subdominant, and the chord built on the subdominant, is often simply called the fourth as it is the fourth scale degree. ... The musical interval of a major second — also called a whole-tone — is the relationship between the first note (the root or tonic) and the second note in a major scale (and also a minor scale). ...

This type of sound is borrowed from the contrapuntal technique of suspension, where a note from a previous chord is carried over to the next chord, and then resolved down to the third or tonic, suspending a note from the previous chord. However, in a suspended chord the added tone does not necessarily resolve. Counterpoint is a very general feature of music (especially prominent in much Western music) whereby two or more melodic strands occur simultaneously – in separate voices, either literally or metaphorically (if the music is instrumental). ... In music theory, a suspension is a nonchord tone that occurs when the harmony shifts from one chord to another, but one or more notes of the first chord are held over, suspended, into the second but then resolved to a chord tone. ... Resolution in western tonal music theory is the need for a sounded note and/or chord to move from a dissonance or unstable sound to a more final or stable sounding one, a consonance. ...

Suspended chords are most commonly found in folk music and popular music. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ...

Contrast with sixth chord. Generally speaking, a sixth chord is any chord which contains the interval of a sixth. ...