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n. Music The fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.

adj. Zoology Less than dominant; ranking below one that is dominant: the subdominant male in a pride of lions.

adj. Ecology Prevalent in a community but below the dominant in importance. Used of a species.

n. The fourth tone of a scale.

n. The triad built on the subdominant tone.

n. The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

n. In music, the tone next below the dominant in a scale; the fourth, as D in the scale of A: also used adjectively. See diagram under circle.

Subordinate; sub-maximal or subnormal: said specifically of the stimuli which evoke marginal or obscure mental processes.

n. (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale

""Epiphany" is pretty extravagantly lovely for a hymn; check out those strong-beat double non-harmonic tones in the third bar, like cheese melting onto the sirloin burger of subdominant substitutions."

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