Other Thirteenth Chords
These voice leading guidelines may not be followed after the common practice period in techniques such as parallel harmony and in the following example:
13th chords may less often be built on degrees other than the dominant, such as the tonic or subdominant.
While the dominant thirteenth is the most common thirteenth chord, the major thirteenth is also fairly common. A major thirteenth chord (containing a major seventh) will nearly always feature a chromatically raised eleventh (C E G B D F♯ A) (see lydian mode), except for cases when the eleventh is omitted altogether. "It is customary to omit the eleventh on dominant or major thirteenth chords because the eleventh conflicts with the third," in these chords by a semitone.
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