Minor seventh chord

minor/minor seventh chord
Component intervals from root
minor seventh
perfect fifth
minor third
root
Tuning
10:12:15:18[1]
Forte no. / Complement
4-26 / 8-26

In music, a minor seventh chord is a seventh chord composed of a root note, a minor third, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭3, 5, ♭7). In other words, one could think of it as a minor triad with a minor seventh attached to it.[2]

For example, the minor seventh chord built on A, commonly written as A−7, has pitches A-C-E-G:

{ \new Staff \with{ \magnifyStaff #1.5 } \relative c' { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f <a c e g>1 } }
  1. ^ Shirlaw, Matthew (1900). The Theory of Harmony, p.86. ISBN 978-1-4510-1534-8.
  2. ^ "musictheory.net". www.musictheory.net. Retrieved 2024-01-30.