Tag: common tone diminished seventh chords

Chromatic embellishing chords are by definition never essential harmonies. As described by Gauldin in Ch. 32, they usually function as passing or neighbor embellishments to other harmonies. Types Augmented Triads. Augmented triads usually supply a dominant function (primary or secondary). Gauldin says that you usually find augmented triads on V or I, but the I…