leading tone
subsemitone

As a result, there are virtually no leading tones in his output.

For Tufts, the syllable mi was located on the leading tone.

Altered notes may be used as leading tones to emphasize their diatonic neighbors.

The distinction between leading tone and subtonic has been made by theorists since at least the second quarter of the 20th century.

Wulfgar nodded grimly, understanding more from Deudermont's leading tone than from his actual words.

A pair of descending scale arcs fell into the second phrase, ending on a leading tone that begged for resolution.

(The leading tone is heard in the "V" chord, as the chord's major third.)

7th - Leading Tone

The augmented fifth of the chord would then act as a leading tone to the third of the next chord.

For example, in the major mode the triad on the seventh scale degree, the leading tone triad is diminished.

asked the commander with a leading tone.

The most common method of tonicization uses leading tones, dominant-tonic chord progressions, or a combination thereof.

"Until it was stolen from him by a dark elf posing as Cadderly," Shayleigh said determinedly and in a leading tone.

The most unstable tones were the ones closest to the tonic (scale degrees 2 and 7) which are called the "supertonic" and the "leading tone".

Certain ways of letting what we call the "leading tone," so named because it normally leads upward to the keynote, slip downward instead and resolve elsewhere.

The Ohio University Leading Tones

B-flat functions here as a downward-pushing leading tone that resolves to A as the third of the F major triad.

Because these chords have no leading tone in relation to the chords to which they resolve, they can not properly have "dominant" function.

When using the natural minor, dominant chords exchange their leading tone for a subtonic; as a result, their dominant quality is strongly undermined.

Renaissance composers routinely sharped leading tones at cadences and lowered the fourth in the Lydian mode (Carver 2005, 74 n4).

"By avoiding the F-sharp in the key signature, the lowered seventh is established as a constant pitch, while the use of the leading tone is the exception."

If the final is approached from below, the leading tone must be raised in a minor key (Dorian), except in the case of the Phrygian mode.

And the piece ended with an alluring moment of indecisiveness, a rising scale that ended on the leading tone, like a sentence cut off before the final word was spoken.

The thriller/horror film 'Jaws (film)#Music' contains a well known leading tone leitmotif, E-F, to represent the shark and suspense associated with it.

Another mentor was Robert Barrow, a mathematician at Williams College who in exploring leading tones and diatonic scales taught his student that "music is craft, not inspiration."