Mediant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MEDIANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the third tone of a scale, about midway between tonic and dominant
• the third note of the diatonic scale of any key.
• third degree of a major or minor scale
• The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
• (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of musical tone

Words related to MEDIANT

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Words that contain MEDIANT

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How to use MEDIANT in a sentence

• The Hindoos have also terms in their language for the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony, of which the Malays seem quite ignorant.
• Now, the twelfth reversed is nothing but the fifth or dominant, and the seventeenth becomes, by a double reversion, the third or mediant of the tonic.
• Let us say, then, that every tone necessarily contains the tonic its generator, the dominant its engendered, and the mediant which proceeds from the other two.

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