Sentence examples for leading note from inspiring English sources

Because the leading note is a member of the dominant chord, this chord also has a strong pull toward the tonic chord.

This note has a strong leading tendency toward the tonic, or keynote (here, C), because it is only a half step away from the tonic, and is thus called the leading note.

The C major triad of the first two bars seems to swell in the ensuing two bars into a diminished seventh chord, a chord functioning much like a dominant chord in its pull to its tonic but built instead with a leading note as its root, as, for example, F♯, the leading note of G, on which is built a chord such as F♯ A C E♭.

Instead, at the end of the verse, the leading note, harmonized as part of the dominant chord, resolves to the prevailing tonic (B) at the end of the verse, after tonicizing the subdominant (IV) E chord, on "disagree".

An interval of one semitone (leading note to tonic) created a sense of tonal resolution ("tonal" condition), whereas the interval of a whole tone left the sequence unresolved ("atonal" condition).

The soprano and alto parts should stay within an octave of one another, Never omit the third of a chord, The alto and tenor parts should stay within an octave of one another, Never double the leading note of the key that you're in.

Such a chord, a dominant seventh chord (V7) contains two leading notes: the seventh of the scale, here B, with its strong pull toward the tonic, and the fourth of the scale, here F, which has a strong pull toward another of the notes of the tonic chord (in this case toward E in the chord C E G), being a half step away from that note.

Although just intonation permitted some harmony based on triads, the use of sharpened leading notes (the last note of the scale, leading upward into the first), which by the 16th century had caused the older system of modes to disintegrate, was made acceptable only by the use of some kind of temperament.

The opening chords and the melody emphasize the tonic of the leading notes: Fm E D Cm D E Fm D E Fm, resembling a Baroque work.

After leading Blue Note for nearly three decades, Lundvall – dealing with the symptoms of Parkinson's disease – stepped down in 2010 and was replaced by musician and producer Don Was.

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