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).