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Definition of Leading tone
1. Noun. (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale.
Definition of Leading tone
1. Noun. (music) scale degree seven when the first scale degree is one half step higher than the seventh scale degree ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Leading Tone
Literary usage of Leading tone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice by Arthur Foote, Walter Raymond Spalding (1905)
"CHORDS of the 7th, of which the leading-tone is the root, are like dominant 7th
chords, ... We first take up the leading-tone 7th in major keys. 127. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"(2) The leading tone can never be doubled. As the loading tone always EX. 11.
demands the progression of a sera ¡step upward ¡uto the octave, ..."
3. Harmony: A Course of Study by George Whitefield Chadwick (1922)
"THE leading tone TRIAD. There remains but one more triad of the major scale to
be considered, ie, that of the seventh or leading tone. ..."
4. First Theory Book by Diller, Angela (1921)
"What is the Leading-tone of B? B is the Leading-tone of what key? ... 3 of the
key of two flats is the Leading-tone of a certain key; what is the Dominant? ..."
5. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"The incomplete Five-nine is the chord of the seventh on the leading-tone (comp.
... But as it cannot be a root if it is the leading-tone (par. ..."
6. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"That is, it is impossible to determine, by ear, which of the four tones is the
leading- tone, which the original 9th, which the ?th, etc. ..."
7. Beethoven's Piano-playing: With an Essay on the Execution of the Trill by Franz Kullak (1901)
"(We win admit, on the other hand, that the leading-tone as such has a certain
priority.) From the close of Beethoven's Variations in Ejj major, op. ..."
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