Dyad

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A dyad (less commonly, diad) is a chord of two pitch classes. In its simplest voicing, a dyad contains two notes, but it may also contain octave doublings (assuming octave equivalence). For example, a power chord is a dyad because it contains only two pitch classes a perfect fifth apart, even though it usually contains at least three notes.

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Dyads can be classified by the interval between the notes, and as such the words dyad and interval are sometimes used interchangeably.

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