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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music The seventh tone or degree of a scale that is a half tone below the tonic; a subtonic.
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- n. music scale degree seven when the first scale degree is one half step higher than the seventh scale degree
WordNet 3.0
- n. (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
Etymologies
- From its tendency to lead into or rise to the tonic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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