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leading tone

Noun

Meaning

(music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

subtonic dominant superdominant scale degree main character dominantized music scale member main tone central color famous tone greater tone leading key leading sound primary tone facial tone
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Hypernyms

note tone musical note

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As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. Source: Internet

If the final is approached from below, then the leading tone must be raised in a minor key (Dorian, Hypodorian, Aeolian, Hypoaeolian), but not in Phrygian or Hypophrygian mode. Source: Internet

Jacobs, quoted in Holden, p. 1060 Jacobs also opined that the leading tone that begins "Never mind the why and wherefore" "serves to emphasize the phrase like a Johann Strauss-ian grace-note". Source: Internet

The term leading tone is generally reserved for seventh degrees that are a half step (semitone) away from the tonic, as is the case in the major scale or the harmonic minor scale (and the melodic minor, ascending). Source: Internet

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