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The Tristan chord is a chord made up of the note F, B, D# and G#. More generally, it can be any chord that consists of these same interval: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented second above a root. It is so named as it is the very first chord heard in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.
At the time Tristan und Isolde was first heard, this chord was considered innovative and daring:
Sound sample of these bars (MIDI file)
This motif also appears in measures 6, 10, and 12,...
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