Secundal

In music or music theory, secundal is the quality of a chord made from seconds, and anything related to things constructed from seconds such as counterpoint. Secundal chords are often referred to more generally as tone clusters.

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Chords which may be considered as built from sevenths, because of musical inversion, are actually secundal.

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See also: tertian, quartal, polychord

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