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Supertonic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Music The second tone of a diatonic scale.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The second note in a diatonic scale.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In music, the tone in a scale next above the tonic or keynote; the second, as A in the scale of G.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (music) the second note of a diatonic scale

Word Usage

"In this respect Palestrina's later style is apparent; but in harmonic terms he is still under Josquin's influence in, for instance, regularly using the minor supertonic triad even when it is leading to the dominant chord."

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Words that are more generic or abstract

tone musical note note