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(music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)
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submediant
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Wikipedia
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In music , the submediant is the sixth scale degree of the diatonic scale , the 'lower mediant' halfway between the tonic and the subdominant or 'lower dominant'. It is also the third factor of the subdominant (IV) triad . It is occasionally called superdominant ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context music English) The sixth note of a scale, shown as VI.
WordNet
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n. (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superdominant \Su`per*dom"i*nant\, n. (Mus.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant .