| has gloss | eng: A borrowed chord (also called mode mixture and modal interchange) is a chord borrowed from the parallel key (minor or major scale with the same tonic). Borrowed chords are typically used as "color chords", providing variety through contrasting scale forms, major and the three forms of minor. Similarly chords may be borrowed from the parallel modes, the various modes beginning on the same tonic, for example Dorian or Phrygian . The VII is also known as the subtonic. The lowered-sixth occurs in many of the chords borrowed from minor and is a, "distinctive characteristic," of borrowed chords<ref name="B&S"/>. Borrowed chords have typical inversions or common positions, for example ii6 and ii}^6_5, and progress in the same manner as the diatonic chords they replace except for VI, which progresses to V(7)<ref name="B&S"/>. |
