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How to pronounce mediant in English?

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Type of musical note, note, tone

Examples of mediant

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The mediant is named from its position between the final and reciting tone.
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The most common practice, for both Beethoven and other composers, the mediant or submediant, rather than the dominant, is used for the second group.
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Structurally, psalm tones in Ambrosian chant consist of an incipit, a recitation formula, and a cadence, lacking the mediant flex found in Gregorian psalm tones.
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The introduction also employs the use of the mediant to tonic relationship which further distorts the tonic key until it is finally played by the bassoon in the lowest possible register.
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More examples
  • (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
  • In mathematics, the mediant of two fractions
  • The third chord or tone of a scale
  • The 3^rd scale degree.