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How are triads represented in sheet music? What are chord progressions?

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In tonal Western classical music (music with a tonic key or "home key"), the most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: the root note, and intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. ... A series of chords is called a chord progression
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