A chord with a flat third and raised fifth?

Question

What is a chord called with it has a flat third and raised fifth? For example, in the key of C major, the I chord consists of C, E and G. The new chord becomes C, Eb and G#. What is this new chord called? I've been describing it all this time as a neighboring chord but I know there's a more technical (specific) term for it... Diminished something...

Answer 1

MInor augmented.

Answer 2

The most elegant solution is to view this as an Ab major chord with the third in the bass. Notice that G# = Ab, thereby making the C the third and the Eb the fifth of the triad.

Now if you want to employ this triad as functioning in a dominant manner referencing another tonal center, the arrangement context would determine other possible passing functions.

For one of many examples, if one superimposes this triad over a D bass, then it is a partially articulated D7-9-5. Standing alone however, it is nothing more than the second inversion of an Ab triad, residing in Ab major as the I, and Eb major as the IV.

Answer 3

You have a C minor chord.
An E flat and an A flat on a C is a minor chord.
A true minor scale will have a flat third with and a flat sixth, not only a flat third.

If I'm wrong, sorry. Not the musical genius I hoped. I had more important things to do, for me, than just study music.

Answer 4

I think diminished is it.

The same way 'augmented' is if you go the other direction.