Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The seventh tone or degree of a scale that is a half tone below the tonic; a subtonic.
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- noun music
scale degree seven when the first scale degree is onehalf step higher than the seventh scale degree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From its tendency to lead into or rise to the tonic.]
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