Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The third tone in a diatonic musical scale, determining the major or minor quality of the tonic chord.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gregorian music, one of the principal tones of a mode, situated as nearly as possible midway between the dominant and the final, and ranking next in importance to them.
- noun In modern music, the third tone of the scale. The scale is major or minor according as the mediant is a major or a minor third above the key-note.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The third
degree of thediatonic scale . - noun mathematics A
rational number whosenumerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whosedenominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(The harmonic progression in the Bernstein is subdominant to mediant, IV-iii: one of his favorites, particularly in his music for Broadway.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM
Im chambre séparée Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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(The harmonic progression in the Bernstein is subdominant to mediant, IV-iii: one of his favorites, particularly in his music for Broadway.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM
Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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They are both scales of seven: the tonic, mediant, and dominant, find their types in red, yellow, and blue, while the modifications on which the diatonic scale is constructed, resemble, numerically and esthetically, the well-known variations in the spectrum.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The Hindoos have also terms in their language for the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony, of which the Malays seem quite ignorant.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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It seems to us that the elementary angles which Mr. Hay conceives to be the tonic, mediant, and dominant, in formal symmetry, will soon be proved to decompose into a scale of linear harmony, forming another beam in this glory of natural analogy.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Ah, you are mediant, incorrigible," said the lady, in broken English, laughing as she spoke.
Won from the Waves William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The mediant 1000 is set to forward any calls to number 12345678 to the IP of the SPA2102
Voxilla VoIP Forum Jin597 2010
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The mediant 1000 is set to forward any calls to number 12345678 to the IP of the SPA2102
Voxilla VoIP Forum Jin597 2010
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Q: Are there plans to bring out msbg versions of the mediant 600 or mediant 2000 platforms?
VoIP & Gadgets Blog 2009
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You have to pay attention to the energy of the voice, the pitch, the inflection of every word, singing and breathing with others together, and be able to alight at the mediant or final cadence with ease.
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