Template talk:Chords

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[edit] Fiddle

Please do fiddle with this template if you think it can be improved. I think the whole music theory section could be smartened up dramatically with templates like this since the subject is quite orderly. Andeggs

Why does the template specify equally tempered music? Hyacinth 07:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Type versus function

A problem with this template is that it is confusing chord type (what the intervals are in the chord) and chord function (how the chord is being used in the key). For example, the Neapolitan "Sixth" is actually just a major triad. Altered chords can be many different types of chords (triads, sevenths, etc.); it's how those chords are used in the key (e.g., using notes outside the key signature) that make them altered.

I'm going to try to redo the template to better illuminate this. Feel free to veto me on it, though. --TobyRush 14:28, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diatonic and chromatic

The table uses the term "diatonic", but without adequate explanation. This term, along with "chromatic", is the cause of serious uncertainties at several other Wikipedia articles, and in the broader literature. Some of us thought that both terms needed special coverage, so we started up a new article: Diatonic and chromatic. Why not have a look, and join the discussion? Be ready to have comfortable assumptions challenged! – Noetica^♬♩ Talk 01:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)