Info Catalog music-glossary: measure repeat music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: melisma

music-glossary: mediant

 
 1.187 mediant
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 ES: mediante, I: mediante, modale, F: médiante, NL: mediant, D:
 Mediante, DK: mediant, S: mediant, FI: keskisävel.
 
    • The third scale degree.
 
    • A _chord_ having its base tone a third from that of another chord.
      For example, the tonic chord may be replaced by its lower mediant
      (variant tonic).
 
 
 See also
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    chord, functional harmony, relative key.
 

Info Catalog music-glossary: measure repeat music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: melisma