List of chords

The following is a list of musical chords and simultaneities:

Code	Chord type
Major	Major chord
Minor	Minor chord
Augmented	Augmented chord
Diminished	Diminished chord
Indeterminate	Indeterminate chord
Predominant	Predominant chord
Suspended	Suspended chord
M3+d5	Major third, flat five
Just	Just intonation
Bitonal	Bitonal chord
Atonal	Atonal chord

List of musical chords

Name	Chord on C	Sound	# of p.c.-Forte #	p.c. #s	Quality
Augmented chord		Play	3-12	0 4 8	Augmented
Augmented eleventh chord[1]		Play	6-34	0 4 7 t 2 6	Major
Augmented major seventh chord		Play	4-19	0 4 8 e	Augmented
Augmented seventh chord		Play	4-24	0 4 8 t	Augmented
Augmented sixth chord			3-8 4-25 4-27B	0 6 t 0 4 6 t 0 4 7 t	Predominant
Diminished chord		Play	3-10	0 3 6	Diminished
Diminished major seventh chord		Play	4-18	0 3 6 e	Diminished
Diminished seventh chord (leading-tone and secondary chord)		Play	4-28	0 3 6 9	Diminished
Dominant		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Dominant eleventh chord		Play	6-33	0 4 7 t 2 5	Major
Dominant minor ninth		Play	5-31	0 4 7 t 1	Major
Dominant ninth		Play	5-34	0 4 7 t 2	Major
Dominant parallel		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Dominant seventh chord		Play	4-27	0 4 7 t	Major
Dominant seventh flat five chord		Play	4-25	0 4 6 t	Diminished
Dominant seventh sharp nine / Hendrix chord		Play	5-32	0 4 7 t 3	Major
Dominant thirteenth chord		Play	7-35	0 4 7 t 2 5 9	Major
Dream chord		Play	4-6	0 5 6 7	Just
Elektra chord		Play	5-32	0 7 9 1 4	Bitonal
Farben chord		Play	5-z17	0 8 e 4 9	Atonal
Half-diminished seventh chord		Play	4-27	0 3 6 t	Diminished
Harmonic seventh chord		Play	4-27	0 4 7 t	Major
Leading-tone triad		Play	3-10	0 3 6	Diminished
Lydian chord		Play	5-20	0 4 7 e 6	Major
Magic chord		Play	8	0 1 5 6 t 0 3 5	Just
Major chord		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Major eleventh chord		Play	6-z25	0 4 7 e 2 5	Major
Major seventh chord		Play	4-20	0 4 7 e	Major
Major seventh sharp eleventh chord		Play	5-30	0 4 8 e 6	Augmented
Major sixth chord		Play	4-26	0 4 7 9	Major
Major sixth ninth chord ("6 add 9",[2] Nine six,[3] 6/9)		Play	5-35	0 4 7 9 2	Major
Major ninth chord		Play	5-27	0 4 7 e 2	Major
Major thirteenth chord		Play	7-35	0 4 7 e 2 6 9	Major
Mediant		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Minor chord		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Minor eleventh chord		Play	6-32	0 3 7 t 2 5	Minor
Minor major seventh chord		Play	4-19	0 3 7 e	Minor
Minor ninth chord		Play	5-27	0 3 7 t 2	Minor
Minor seventh chord		Play	4-26	0 3 7 t	Minor
Minor sixth chord		Play	4-27	0 3 7 9	Minor
Minor sixth ninth chord (6/9)		Play	5-29	0 3 7 9 2	Minor
Minor thirteenth chord		Play	7-35	0 3 7 t 2 5 9	Minor
Mu chord		Play	4-22	0 2 4 7	Major
Mystic chord		Play	6-34	0 6 t 4 9 2	Atonal
Neapolitan chord		Play	3-11	1 5 8	Major
Ninth augmented fifth chord[2][4]		Play	5-33	0 4 8 t 2	Augmented
Ninth flat fifth chord[2]		Play	5-33	0 4 6 t 2	M3+d5
Northern lights chord		Play	11-1	1 2 8 0 3 6 7 t e 4 7	Atonal
"Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord		Play	6-20	0 1 4 5 8 9	Atonal
Petrushka chord		Play	6-30	0 1 4 6 7 t	Bitonal
Power chord P5		Play	2-5	0 7	Indeterminate
Psalms chord		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Secondary dominant		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Secondary leading-tone chord		Play	3-10	0 3 6	Diminished
Secondary supertonic chord		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Seven six chord[5]		Play	5-25	0 4 7 9 t	Major
Seventh suspension four chord[6]		Play	4-23	0 5 7 t	Suspended
So What chord		Play	5-35	0 5 t 3 7	Bitonal
Suspended chord		Play	3-9	0 5 7	Suspended
Subdominant		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Subdominant parallel		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Submediant		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Subtonic		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Supertonic		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Thirteenth flat ninth chord[2]		Play	6-27	0 4 7 t 1 x 9[7]	Major
Thirteenth flat ninth flat fifth chord[2]		Play	6-z49	0 4 6 t 1 x 9[7]	M3+d5
Tonic counter parallel		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Tonic		Play	3-11	0 4 7	Major
Tonic parallel		Play	3-11	0 3 7	Minor
Tristan chord		Play	4-27	0 3 6 t	Predominant
Viennese trichord		Play	3-5A	0 1 6 or 0 6 7	Atonal

See also

• Added tone chord
• Altered chord
• Approach chord
• Chord names and symbols (popular music)
• Chromatic mediant
• Common chord (music)
• Diatonic function
• Eleventh chord
• Extended chord
• Jazz chord
• Lead sheet
• List of musical intervals
• List of pitch intervals
• List of musical scales and modes
• List of pitch-class sets
• Ninth chord
• Open chord
• Passing chord
• Primary triad
• Quartal chord
• Root (chord)
• Seventh chord
• Synthetic chord
• Thirteenth chord
• Tone cluster
• Triad (music)
• Upper structure

Sources

1. Pearse, John (1977). The Guitarist's Picture Chord Encyclopedia, p.31. ISBN 0-8256-2199-2.
2. Bay, William (10 April 1971). Encyclopedia of guitar chords. Mel Bay Publications. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-87166-664-2. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
3. Pearse (1977), p.35.
4. Pearse (1977), p.27.
5. Pearse (1977), p.34.
6. Pearse (1977), p.24
7. x could be either 5, 6, or nothing, depending on the eleventh of the chord.