Crossword-Solution: SUBDOMINANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subdominant | n. | The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SUBDOMINANT”
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| the fourth degree of the diatonic scale, eg F in the scale of C | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
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Sentences with SUBDOMINANT (5)
Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.
The feeling of mysterious and awful grandeur awakened by Peter's bold exclamation, "Thou art the Christ," is powerfully rendered by the entrance of the trombones upon the inverted subdominant triad of C-sharp minor, and their pause upon the dominant of the same key.
Only in the twelfth and thirteenth bars from the end (the whole piece contains seventy) the triad of the subdominant comes forward, and gives a little breathing time to the triad of the tonic, the chord of the dominant having already dropped off.
Through it, by creating the tonic chord as fundamental, the rivalry between the tonic, dominant, and subdominant is overcome, and all dissonances finally resolved into unity.
Later on they will learn that these notes often introduce modulations to the dominant, subdominant, and relative minor keys respectively.