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Topic: Chord G-C-F#  (Read 5512 times)

Offline mad_max2024

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Chord G-C-F#
on: October 20, 2008, 10:08:29 PM
While trying to study Beethoven's sonata pathetique I found this chord: G-C-F# which I didn't know before.


I tried to find something about it on the net and what I found was that it is a quartal chord belonging to quartal harmony.
I also found some people that describe it as Gmaj7sus4, I guess that would be consistent with the harmony since it resolves into the dominant G major (m36 in my edition)

So... Is it a Gmaj7sus4 chord or am I missing something?
Any help?
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Offline mike_lang

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Re: Chord G-C-F#
Reply #1 on: October 20, 2008, 10:10:20 PM
Isn't that also the opening motive of the Berg sonata?
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Offline Petter

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Re: Chord G-C-F#
Reply #2 on: October 20, 2008, 10:28:44 PM
Think of it as a dominant chord in this context. I think Rameau was the first to describe it in tonal music. (But thatīs just a guess  ;))
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