Monad

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Monad (music)

A monad is a chord of one pitch class. Monads occur in the traditional gyil music of west Africa, which are tuned roughly equipentatonic. Numbering the pitches arbitrarily 1 through 5, a common chord progression alternates between dyads 1–4 and 2–5, with the 3 monad frequently interspersed at regular intervals. Examples: Gyil C, Gyil D.

See also

• Chords by size:
  • Dyad
  • Triad
  • Tetrad
  • Pentad
  • Hexad

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