leading tone

lead·ing tone

L0085000 (lē′dĭng)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.]

lead′ing tone′

(ˈli dɪŋ)
n. the seventh tone of an ascending diatonic scale. [1910–15]

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

leading tone

lead·ing tone

lead′ing tone′

leading tone

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noun (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

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