Augmented Sixth Chords



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Other Bass Positions

  • Not yet a topic of discussion because the augumented chord is a linear sonority that has no root

  • A Fr+6 can be arranged to resemble an altered V7/V, and the It+6 and Gr+6 sonorities can be likened to altered iv7 chords

  • minor 6th is usually constitute the bass of an +6 chord, other bass position do occur, especially in music of Romantic period

  • The only other bass position that occurs with any frequency is that with the tonic pitch in the bass

  • Because +6 chords have no root and therefore technically cannot be inverted

Resolution to Other Scale Degrees

  • The augmented interval (+6) of the chord usually embellishes 5th degree, we could have used symbols like Ger+6/5th, but it is understood that β€œ/5th” is implied when we write β€œGer+6”

  • In Romantic period, the +6 is sometimes applied to scale degrees other than the 5th, and those cases, we make this clear as shown below:





  • To spell or recognize the various +6 types, you will have to familiar with the intervallic structure of the three kinds of augmented sixth chord



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