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chord of the sixth

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noun

Music.

  1. sixth chord.

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Who will not recall the memorable passage in the A flat Ballade, where the right hand alone takes up the dotted eighths after the sustained chord of the sixth of A flat?

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

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