supertonic

[soo-per-ton-ik]

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noun Music.

the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.

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Origin:
1800–10; super- + tonic

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rest equivalent in duration to a whole note

note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note

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supertonic (ˌsuːpəˈtɒnɪk)

—n
1.	the second degree of a major or minor scale
2.	a key or chord based on this

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