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sixth chord
noun
, Music.
- an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
sixth chord
noun
- See added sixth(in classical harmony) the first inversion of the triad, in which the note next above the root appears in the bass See also added sixth
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Origin of sixth chord1
First recorded in 1870–75
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