Submediant (Noun)
Meaning
(music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic).
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- In a musical composition, the submediant was often used to add emotional depth and tension.
- The melody resolves with the tonic note, followed closely by the submediant to create a haunting sense of melancholy.
- After extensive improvisation, the submediant finally felt at home as a leading tone within the music composition.
- Experimenting with extended harmonies on the piano helped solidify his sense of harmony revolving around the submediant note.
- Rethinking their final choruses using chords involving the submediant expanded upon emotional effects resonating in key target populations' ranges and skills in orchestras with audiences not completely 'consensual and known beforehandURLException*.