leading tone
the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
Origin of leading tone
1- Also called leading note .
Words Nearby leading tone
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How to use leading tone in a sentence
Without getting too technical, the mixolydian is a type of major scale in which the leading tone—used relentlessly in pop music to build tension and yearning—is replaced by a flat seven.
In the last measure but one, both the supertonic and leading tone should appear.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons | Friedrich J. LehmannThe embellishment is treated in the same way, but is most effective when the principal tone is the leading-tone, as at b.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons | Friedrich J. LehmannHere the leading-tone that is prepared skips to some other chord-tone, while the new leading-tone remains stationary.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons | Friedrich J. LehmannThe resolution to the leading-tone (d) forms an important exception to this rule.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons | Friedrich J. Lehmann
Thus the color which was the leading tone of one room became the relieving tint of another.
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau | Honore de Balzac
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