major triad
Americannoun
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One of the striking things about Harvey's later works is their hospitality to old-fashioned consonances, including the major triad.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker.
From Time Magazine Archive
The major triad consists of the first note of the diatonic scale, or tonic; its third, and its fifth.
From Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon
I took her place at the piano and played the Nocturne in a manner that silenced the chatter of the company both in and out of the room, involuntarily closing it with the major triad.
From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
The seed from which our modern wealth of harmony and tone colour sprang was the perfect major triad.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
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