< A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
SUBMEDIANT. The sixth note of the scale rising upwards. The note next above the dominant, as A in the key of C. The submediant of any major scale is chiefly brought into prominence as the tonic of its relative minor.
[ C. H. H. P. ]
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