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The Elektra chord is a "complexly dissonant signature-chord" and motivic elaboration used by composer Richard Strauss to represent the title character of his opera Elektra that is a "bitonal synthesis of E major and C-sharp major" and may be regarded as a polychord related to conventional chords with added thirds, in this case an eleventh chord. It is enharmonically equivalent to a 7#9 chord : D♭-F-A♭-C♭-E and a 6b9 chord : E-G#-B-C#-F.

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  • The Elektra chord is a "complexly dissonant signature-chord" and motivic elaboration used by composer Richard Strauss to represent the title character of his opera Elektra that is a "bitonal synthesis of E major and C-sharp major" and may be regarded as a polychord related to conventional chords with added thirds, in this case an eleventh chord. It is enharmonically equivalent to a 7#9 chord : D♭-F-A♭-C♭-E and a 6b9 chord : E-G#-B-C#-F. In Elektra the chord, Elektra's "harmonic signature" is treated various ways betraying "both tonal and bitonal leanings...a dominant 4/2 over a nonharmonic bass." It is associated as well with its seven note complement which may be arranged as a dominant thirteenth while other characters are represented by other motives or chords, such as Klytämnestra's contrasting harmony. The Elektra chord's complement appears at important points and the two chords form a 10-note pitch collection, lacking D and A, which forms one of Elektra's "distinctive 'voices'" The chord is also found in Claude Debussy's Feuilles mortes, where it may be analyzed as an appoggiatura to a minor ninth chord, and Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang, and Alexander Scriabin's Sixth Piano Sonata. (en)
  • L'accordo di Elettra è un complesso e dissonante accordo ed elaborazione motivica utilizzato dal compositore Richard Strauss per rappresentare il personaggio eponimo della sua opera Elettra. È una sintesi bitonale degli accordi di mi maggiore e do diesis maggiore. L'accordo si trova anche in di Claude Debussy, dove può essere analizzato come un'appoggiatura ad un accordo di nona minore, e in di Franz Schreker, e nella Sesta Sonata per pianoforte di Alexander Scriabin. (it)
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  • L'accordo di Elettra è un complesso e dissonante accordo ed elaborazione motivica utilizzato dal compositore Richard Strauss per rappresentare il personaggio eponimo della sua opera Elettra. È una sintesi bitonale degli accordi di mi maggiore e do diesis maggiore. L'accordo si trova anche in di Claude Debussy, dove può essere analizzato come un'appoggiatura ad un accordo di nona minore, e in di Franz Schreker, e nella Sesta Sonata per pianoforte di Alexander Scriabin. (it)
  • The Elektra chord is a "complexly dissonant signature-chord" and motivic elaboration used by composer Richard Strauss to represent the title character of his opera Elektra that is a "bitonal synthesis of E major and C-sharp major" and may be regarded as a polychord related to conventional chords with added thirds, in this case an eleventh chord. It is enharmonically equivalent to a 7#9 chord : D♭-F-A♭-C♭-E and a 6b9 chord : E-G#-B-C#-F. (en)
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  • Accordo di Elettra (it)
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