subtonic
IPA: sˈʌbtˈɑnɪk
noun
- (music) The note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale.
- (phonetics, dated) An imperfectly articulated sound or utterance, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation, 1833).
adjective
- (phonetics, dated) Of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated sounds or utterances that are inaudible or barely audible, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation, 1833).
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Examples of "subtonic" in Sentences
- The VII is also known as the subtonic.
- Be careful not to convert the subtonic into a tonic.
- In the final chord V the leading note replaces the subtonic.
- Meanwhile, in pop and rock music the subtonic is rather common.
- Subtonic and supertonic are tones in the first place, not chords.
- Minor key non classical music has seen most of the use of the subtonic.
- Lerheim is also the leader and co composer of the vocal jazz quintet Subtonic.
- For example, relative to the key of C major, the key of B major is the subtonic.
- I'm reminded of the problem that physicists have when they're looking at subtonic particles.
- -- Utter the word _bud_ slowly, and detach from the rest of the word the obscure murmur heard in pronouncing the first letter: this is the _subtonic_ represented by _b_.
- Some syllables that so end, by virtue of tonic or subtonic elements which they may contain, are capable of _some_ prolongation; for example, _warp_, _dart_, _block_, _grab_, _dread_,
- = Indefinite Syllables = are capable of almost indefinite prolongation; they are those which terminate in a tonic, or any subtonic except one of the three abrupt subtonics, _b_, _d_, _g_; for example, _awe_, _fudge_,
- "The Green Man [his nickname at the time] always played his arpeggios back to front, and in the subtonic key, which forced the listener to rethink his assumptions about where a solo should go," recalls Parnell, who played bass with Miles Davis, Art Tatum, and Thelonious Monk.
- But the correct and distinct pronunciation of the subtonic, and especially of the atonic, elements, when they occur, as is so frequent in English words, in combination, is not so easily accomplished; and orthoepy, in this respect, as a _habit_, cannot be secured without great care and incessant practice.
- If the terminal sound is a tonic, or a flowing subtonic, the implication consists of a gentle murmuring prolongation of the terminal element coalescing with the initial element of the next word; if the terminal element is a flowing atonic the prolongation will not be accompanied by a murmur; but in either case the vocal organs, while prolonging the sound of one word, prepare, as it were, to begin the next.