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

Today we call it the mediant.

The first section of this is noteworthy for ending on unusual cadence on the mediant.

If C is the tonic, G is the dominant, so in the middle comes the mediant.

However, it has been shown that using the mediant of the endpoints is in general much slower than the "mid-point" version.

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

In music, chromatic mediants, "are altered mediant and submediant chords."

In the plagal cadence, it appears as the falling of the subdominant to the mediant.

In particular, seventh and ninth chords were no longer considered dissonant, and the mediant could be altered without changing the mode.

Modulations are limited almost exclusively to the dominant (C sharp major) and the lowered mediant (A major).

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

The major scale is so named because of the presence of this interval between its tonic and mediant (1st and 3rd) scale degrees.

The development explores a number of keys, including the mediant, A-flat major, and the parallel major, F major.

The major chord on the mediant is itself the Terzklang (De: third chord). "

Saeli suggested that the mediant of the endpoints be used instead of their midpoint .

Each psalm tone has a formulaic intonation, mediant (or mediation), and termination (or ending).

In a natural minor scale, the mediant occurs as a major chord, noted with the Roman numeral III.

For mediant in music, see mediant.

In his theory, he divides the Eurasian continent into three major ecological zones: Japan, the Mediant, and Western Europe.

Theme 3 has modulated to the mediant, E-flat major, and features an Alberti-type figuration for the bass with tremolo.

Twelve Guilds Accept Compromise Agreement appears to have been reached in the labor dispute now disrupting commerce along the Mediant.

For example, in the key of C major the diatonic mediant and submediant are E minor and A minor.

Farey conjectured, without offering proof, that each new term in a Farey sequence expansion is the mediant of its neighbours.

In the other resolutions, the dominant remains stationary, the leading note and supertonic resolve to the tonic, and the subdominant resolves to the mediant.

In his paper Cauchy referred to the mediant as "a remarkable property of ordinary fractions observed by M. J. Farey."