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leading tone
[ lee-ding ]
noun
, Music.
- the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leading tone1
First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences
In the last measure but one, both the supertonic and leading tone should appear.
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The embellishment is treated in the same way, but is most effective when the principal tone is the leading-tone, as at b.
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Here the leading-tone that is prepared skips to some other chord-tone, while the new leading-tone remains stationary.
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The resolution to the leading-tone (d) forms an important exception to this rule.
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Thus the color which was the leading tone of one room became the relieving tint of another.
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