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lead·ing tone (l

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n. Music

The seventh tone or degree of a scale that is a half tone below the tonic; a subtonic.

[From its tendency to lead into or rise to the tonic.]

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Noun

leading tone - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

subtonic

musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

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