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Name: Beyond Triads: Naming Other Chords
ID: m11995
Language: English (en)
Summary: The name of a chord is determined by the relationship to the tonic of every note in the chord.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: altered chords, bass notes, chords, chord symbols, diminished seventh, extended chords, half-diminished seventh, major seventh, minor seventh, seventh chords, suspended chords, suspensions, triads
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.15 (history)
First publication date: May 18, 2004 11:32 am -0500
Last revision to module: Jan 18, 2013 5:52 am -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.16 Feb 15, 2013 9:00 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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took down call for research study participants
Version: 1.15 Jan 18, 2013 5:52 am -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added call for research study participants
Version: 1.14 Oct 1, 2011 7:45 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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link to blog
Version: 1.13 Mar 11, 2011 9:33 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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removed from survey
Version: 1.12 Apr 13, 2010 5:24 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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linked to survey
Version: 1.11 Dec 9, 2009 8:44 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added Google analytics tracking
Version: 1.10 Oct 4, 2007 10:53 am -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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fixed broken link; small changes in text for clarity
Version: 1.9 Mar 9, 2007 2:09 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added outline eps and svg files
Version: 1.8 Sep 21, 2006 2:15 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Revised most figures and audio files, added sections on chord symbols and altered chords, extensively revised text
Version: 1.7 Feb 1, 2006 12:42 pm -0600 by Chuck Bearden
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Fixed document/@id so that course publishing would create correct page references.
Version: 1.6 Jan 31, 2006 6:30 pm -0600 by Chuck Bearden
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Uploaded fixed EPS files.
Version: 1.5 Jan 31, 2006 3:48 pm -0600 by Chuck Bearden
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Updated EPS files for print version.
Version: 1.4 Jan 31, 2006 2:34 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Minor text and figure changes
Version: 1.3 Jan 25, 2006 11:06 am -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Updated figures
Version: 1.2 Mar 14, 2005 9:47 am -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Corrected figure 1
Version: 1.1 May 28, 2004 1:49 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module

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