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Mediant

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chromaticUses relating to colour
tiercenoun(religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
minor thirdnoun(music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 6:5, spanning two degrees of the diatonic scale.
thirdnounThe person or thing in the third position.
minor scalenoun(music) The natural minor scale.
semidiapentenoun(music, archaic) A diminished fifth.
neutral thirdnoun(music) A third that is between a major and a minor third in size; an interval of approximately three and a half semitones.
submediantnoun(music) The sixth note of a scale, shown as VI.
diapentenoun(music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
picardy thirdnoun(music) A major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage.
major thirdnoun(music) A musical interval in Western music that is equal to or approximates a frequency ratio of 5/4. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of four standard semitones, spans three degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to a diminished fourth. Major scales are so named because of the major third interval between the tonic and mediant of a major tonic triad.
semidiapasonnoun(music) A diminished octave.
semiditonenoun(music) The lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.
minor secondnoun(music) an interval that is equivalent to the difference between the third and fourth degrees of a diatonic major scale.
secondnounSomething that is number two in a series.
fourthnoun(in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
subdominantnoun(music) The fourth tone of a scale.
diminished thirdnoun(music) An interval that is equivalent to a minor third narrowed by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equivalent to a major second.
triadnounA grouping of three.
diatonicismnoun(music) The use of the diatonic scale.

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