A thirteenth chord "collapsed" into one octave results in a dissonant, seemingly secundal[1] tone cluster. Created by Hyacinth (talk) 22:18, 5 July 2009 using Sibelius 5.
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande motif, at Mélisande's entrance and later when Golaud asks if she ever loved Pelléas, features, in addition to the already usual ninth, a thirteenth inverted to a "warm" close-position fourth.
Author: Created by Hyacinth (talk) 06:08, 6 July 2009 using Sibelius 5.
MIDI rendering of a passage from the madrigal "O voi che sospirate a miglior noti" by Renaissance composer Luca Marenzio (c.1553–1599), bars 35–41. Illustrating a striking use of chromaticism in a progression through the whole en:circle of fifths. MIDI produced with Lilypond.