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Abstract:

Basing upon original computational analytic method (Majchrzak 2005, 2007), the present work aims, at: 1) Showing the differences for the major key and the minor (harmonic) key in the classification of chords, as an aspect of importance for interpreting a piece’s tonal structure diagram; 2) Drawing attention to the subordination of the minor key as versus the major key in the chord classification, using the same algorithm. The relations between chords appearing in the major and minor (harmonic) key are shown by applying the comparisons of: 1) third-based chords; 2) degrees in the C major and A minor keys, on which the same diatonic chords appear.