From baroque music to jazz to contemporary pop music, composers have sought ways to indicate the use of chords through symbols.

Chord symbols tell the performer which chord to use, but leave it up to the performer's musical taste how to implement it.

See: Baroque, Jazz Chord Symbols: Triads, Seventh Chords, Ninth Chords, Extended Chords

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