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music-glossary: leading note

 
 1.168 leading note
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 ES: sensible, I: sensibile, F: (note) sensible, D: Leitton, NL:
 leidtoon, DK: ledetone, S: ledton, FI: johtosävel.
 
    The seventh _scale degree_, a _semitone_ below the tonic; so called
 because of its strong tendency to ‘lead up’ (resolve upwards) to the
 tonic scale degree.
 
 
 See also
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    scale degree, semitone.
 

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