Crossword-Solution: MEDIANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mediant | n. | The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEDIANT | anagram | ANDTIME |
We have 4 clues for the answer “MEDIANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Third degree of a musical scale | 1 answer |
| Third tone of a musical scale | 1 answer |
| Third tone of a scale, in music | 1 answer |
| third degree of a major or minor scale | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEDIANT (5)
Putting, pound, potassium, pot, porter; initial p, mediant t—that was his idea, poor little boy! So with politics and that which excites men in the present, so with history and that which rouses them in the past: there lie at the root of what appears, most serious unsuspected elements.
The tonic (Father) necessarily generates the dominant (Son), and the mediant (Holy Ghost) proceeds necessarily from the first two.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1998–2020).