subdominant

IPA: sʌbdˈɑmʌnʌnt

noun

  • (music) The fourth tone of a scale.
  • (music) The triad built on the subdominant tone.
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Examples of "subdominant" in Sentences

  • Sharpened subdominant with minor seventh.
  • Sharpened subdominant with diminished seventh.
  • It is also the third factor of the subdominant IV triad.
  • The immense second movement is in the subdominant key of A major.
  • In a harmonic minor scale, this chord is on the subdominant degrees.
  • A group usually consists of one silverback and few subdominant males.
  • I'm only seeing it as a subdominant parallel which makes sense to me.
  • The immense second movement is in the subdominant key of A flat major.
  • Similarly, the submediant is halfway between the tonic and subdominant.
  • The recapitulation begins, unusually, in the subdominant key of F major.
  • The other business, the subdominant company, is folded into the dominant company.
  • The IV chord, also called the subdominant, is a chord built on the fourth tone of the scale, in our example, a B-flat.
  • In the recent Berkshire Hathaway merger with BNSF railroad, Berkshire was the dominant company and BNSF the subdominant one.
  • The core of his argument concerns the relationships of keys to each other, the establishment of a tonal centre, the sequence of tonic, dominant, subdominant.
  • That afternoon, I ... ... staked a subdominant buck decoy about 15 yards off the stand in a small opening in the otherwise thick hedge pasture, then climbed up to my perch.
  • "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.
  • It's far closer to the language of Tristan — or, in a way, the epic E-flat-major triad that opens Das Rheingold (which, when it finally does move, goes to the not to the dominant but the subdominant — where Wolf and Puccini start).

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