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One began with a major-seventh chord – used frequently in ‘70s pop songs – and Fleenor gave it an arching, nine-note melody in the intro and at the end of the prospective choruses.
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Tom Roland, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Once this heart-scouring chorale has floated home to G major, the strings trace a descending line that gradually outlines a dominant seventh chord: G–E–C-sharp–A.
—Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
Wood taught him functional music theory, like how singer-songwriters depended so much on the major seventh chord, or what made the songs of, say, Dan Fogelberg or Elton John tick.
—Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
Such enharmonic transfers often are incorporated into dominant-seventh chords, among the more unstable harmonies in traditional tonal practice.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
An interesting approach to a tune that's kind of like a blues but with major seventh chords.
—Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2017
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Tom Roland, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Once this heart-scouring chorale has floated home to G major, the strings trace a descending line that gradually outlines a dominant seventh chord: G–E–C-sharp–A.
—Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
Wood taught him functional music theory, like how singer-songwriters depended so much on the major seventh chord, or what made the songs of, say, Dan Fogelberg or Elton John tick.
—Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
Such enharmonic transfers often are incorporated into dominant-seventh chords, among the more unstable harmonies in traditional tonal practice.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
An interesting approach to a tune that's kind of like a blues but with major seventh chords.
—Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2017
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“Seventh chord.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seventh%20chord. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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