Who invented guitar chords

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JonR Member. Messages 15, That site tells me that it knows of only songs that go I - vi - IV - V. I'd say its song list is somewhat skewed. If it had more songs from the 50ss there'd be hundreds more with those changes. In contrast, it knows of songs that go i - bVII - bVI - so yeah, it's apparently skewed towards recent pop. Messages 13, We were fortunate to have a music class offered at our highschool by a wonderful man who gave his life to teaching music. Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 2 months ago.

Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. Chords being played and heard likely dates back at least to Ancient Greece. If you count only two notes as a chord, then the aulos was used to play two note chords as early as years ago! As others have mentioned, it depends on your definition of "chord". Certainly chorales were full of what we would consider chords, but the were treated as a collection of "voices", each leading to its own resolution.

That's why they had such strict rules regarding intervallic movement. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In a quote from this article : The concept of triadic generation and invertibility, so clearly and firmly established by Johannes Lippius in and again in , constitutes a milestone in the history of harmonic theory. Improve this answer. So I assume until someone tells me different that Bach, for example, knew every little thing there is to know about chords when composing his music.

Don't misquote me. I said the modern concept of chord notation wasn't invented in the Baroque period. Well, actually it was invented during the Baroque period, and first published in a book written by Rameau in - and that book was widely considered to be avant-garde nonsense when it first appeared in print!

Bach and his contemporaries certainly didn't think of "chord progressions" in the sense of "C Em F G7" or whatever - that notation was non-existent at the time. FWIW this thread music. If you want to really feel like you understand the subject, I would suggest that you consider following alephzero's advice about reading CPE Bach, and form your own opinions after doing so.

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