1) French word used in English 2) Musical note 3) Note 4) Third tone of a musical scale 5) Tone
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In music, the mediant (Latin: to be in the middle) is the third scale degree of a diatonic scale, being the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant. Similarly, the submediant is halfway between the tonic and subdominant. The fifth note is almost always a perfect fifth, while the third note can equally be a minor or major third. Schenkerian...
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• (n.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
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The note or chord on The third degree of The major scale. Often marked with The Roman numeral III
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Me'di·ant noun [ Latin
medians , past participle of
mediare to halve: confer Italian
mediante , French
médiante .]
(Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
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In music the mediant is the third above the keynote. It is so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
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n] - (music) the third note of a diatonic scale
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mediant 1. Intervening; mediating. 2. In music, relating to or having as a root the mediant of a scale. 3. Again, in music, relating to or designating the mediation of a chant
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noun (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
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the third note of a diatonic scale, and the chord built on that note.
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