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Definition of Subdominants
1. subdominant [n] - See also: subdominant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subdominants
Literary usage of Subdominants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"The behavior of the subdominants seems fully as significant as that of the dominants,
... The subdominants are practically all long-lived perennial herbs, ..."
2. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"A striking instance of the value of subdominants as climatic indicators was found
in the Red Beds valley inside the Black Hills rim. ..."
3. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"... second order dominants in Duncan's hierarchy, third order subdominants (Houston,
New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville, and Birmingham), and lower level ..."
4. A History of Music by John Frederick Rowbotham (1886)
"T The 4th also served the theorists as the framework on which they arranged the
Modes, for they often arranged the Modes by subdominants, as we arrange our ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1865)
"People talk of Lydian, Phrygian, and Dorian modes ; of Dominants and subdominants ;
of major and minor, and Diatonic and Chromatic scales, and all the rest ..."
6. The Musical World (1851)
"with harmony, or Anglicism, the concealment of the want of skill to do so, except
by means of arbitrary dominants and subdominants adapted to each of them, ..."
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