thirteenth chord


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thirteenth chord

n
(Jazz) a chord much used in jazz and pop, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth above the root. Often shortened to: thirteenth
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His description of a chord from one of Schumann's letters to Clara as "a C minor sonority including D[flat] and F[flat]" not only misses the point that this is an E-flat thirteenth chord with a flatted ninth, as well as the fact that Schumann himself described the chord as "...
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