Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A suspended chord is an added tone chord in which the third is replaced or accompanied by either a fourth or a major second, although the fourth is far more common. This term suspended is borrowed from the contrapuntal technique of suspension, where a note from a previous chord is carried over to the next chord, and then resolved down to the third or tonic, suspending a note from the previous chord. However, in a suspended chord the added tone does not necessarily resolve. Suspended chords are most commonly found in folk music and popular music. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.