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Definition: Subdominant |
SubdominantNoun1. (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Pertaining to one of the 4 main crown classes recognised on the basis of relative status and condition in the crop, more particularly for establishing thinning grades for pure regular crops; the trees have their crowns in the middle layers of the canopy, with only the leading shoots free. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A)(plant ecology)a component of a community, typically a species which, though locally(co-)dominant, exerts much less dominance than the widespread dominant does; b)(silviculture)more particularly, a species in a mixed crop that does not equal the(co-)dominants in number and vigour. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cadential subdominant chord followed by a tonic chord (the chord of the key of the piece) produces the so-called "plagal"( or "Amen") cadence.
"Subdominant" also refers to a relationship of musical keys. For example, relative to the key of C major, the key of F major is the subdominant. Music which modulates (changes key) often modulates into the subdominant. Modulation into the subdominant key often creates a sense of musical relaxation; as opposed to modulation into dominant (fifth note of the scale), which increases tension.
In sonata form, the subdominant key plays a subordinate though still crucial role: typically, in the recapitulation, there is a section written in the subdominant key, occurring at the point corresponding to the location in the exposition where the music modulated into the dominant key. The use of the subdominant in this location often serves as a way of keeping the rest of recapitulation in the tonic, although this practice is extremely rare.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subdominant."
Crosswords: Subdominant |
| English words defined with "subdominant": Attendant keys ♦ Deceptive cadence ♦ Plagal cadence. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Subdominant" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (subdominant). |
| "Subdominant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Subdominant" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subdominant | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "subdominant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | субдоминанта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | behersket (dominated, intermediate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overheerst (dominated, intermediate), medeheersende boomsoort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | välipuu (crosser, dominated, dunnage, fillet, intermediate, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subdominant, retardataire, intermédiaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mitherrschende Baumart, beherrscht (composed, composedly, controlled, disciplined, governed, restrained, rules, self controlled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | "ένδρο μεσορόφου (dominated, intermediate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | subdominante, dominato (rules). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 下属音 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かぞくお". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fochioneysagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubdominantsay subdominante (dominated, intermediate), retardatário (lagger, lingerer), intermediário (agent, broker, go-between, interjacent, intermediator, jobber, mean, medial, middle, salesman), dominado (restrained, subdued, subject), codominante (dominated, intermediate). (various references) subdominante, dominada (dominated, intermediate, overtopped, subordinate, suppressed). (various references) subdominant, behärskade träd, behärskad (restrained, self contained, self controlled, self possessed, undemonstrative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subdominant": subdominants. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "subdominant" (pronounced 'Sub*dom"i*nant'): Absonant, Agglutinant, Alternant, Altisonant, Asonant, Assonant, Benignant, Conglutinant, Conterminant, Culminant, fulminant, Germinant, illuminant, indignant, Lenocinant, Luminant, Mendinant, Nonmalignant, Nonruminant, Nonsonant, Oppugnant, Ordonnant, Originant, Pennant, Predominant, Pregnant, Preregnant, Rayonnant, regnant, Remenant, repugnant, Restagnant, Rhonchisonant, Self-examinant, Self-repugnant, sonant, stagnant, Subalternant, Superdominant, Unconsonant, Unisonant, Vaginant, Vernant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: badmintons. | |
-2 letters: badminton, dominants, mountains. | |
-3 letters: antisnob, bimanous, bondsman, dismount, dominant, inbounds, manitous, misbound, misdoubt, mountain, saintdom, soundman, sudation, tinamous. | |
-4 letters: abounds, adnouns, amnions, amounts, anoints, astound, bandits, bastion, bausond, bondman, bonitas, bundist, bunions, daimons, diatoms, dimouts, domains, dustbin, dustman, inbound, intombs, manitos, manitou, manitus, mansion, mantids, mastoid, muntins, nations, nonsuit, numbats, obtains, obtunds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: subdominants. | |
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