leading tone

In the last measure but one, both the supertonic and leading tone should appear.

The embellishment is treated in the same way, but is most effective when the principal tone is the leading-tone, as at b.

Here the leading-tone that is prepared skips to some other chord-tone, while the new leading-tone remains stationary.

The resolution to the leading-tone (d) forms an important exception to this rule.

Thus the color which was the leading tone of one room became the relieving tint of another.