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mediant [Brit ˈmiːdɪənt, Am ˈmidiənt] N MUS

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The mediant is named from its position between the final and reciting tone. en.wikipedia.org

The submediant is usually preceded by the mediant, tonic, or dominant and succeeded by supertonic, dominant, or subdominant. en.wikipedia.org

In scalar terms, this is the first (tonic), third (mediant) and fifth (dominant) of a scale, played twice, with an additional tonic added at the high end. en.wikipedia.org

The mediant is named from its positionin the authentic modesbetween the final and cofinal. en.wikipedia.org

This is an example of the mediant-octave modal frame. en.wikipedia.org

In a major scale, this chord is on the second (supertonic seventh), third (mediant) or sixth (submediant) degrees. en.wikipedia.org

The scale degrees of a heptatonic (7-note) scale can also be named using the terms tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic. en.wikipedia.org

For example, the mediant of 1/1 and 1/2 is 2/3, but the mediant of 2/2 and 1/2 is 3/4. en.wikipedia.org

From this, he argues that the mediant and its chromatic alteration combines the first three to produce the fourth tonal function. en.wikipedia.org

In addition to the final and cofinal, every mode is distinguished by scale degrees called the mediant and the participant. en.wikipedia.org

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