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Elektra chord

The Elektra chord is a "complexly dissonant signature-chord" and motivic elaboration used by composerRichard 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.

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