Richard wrote:
If someone says to me "sub-dominant" within a music discussion, I will take that to mean the pitch just BELOW the Dominant or the 4th pitch in the scale.
but the original meaning of "sub-dominant" was the "dominant (fifth)
below the tonic". The fact that it happens to be the same scale
designation as the note below the dominant is an artifact. This is also
how one makes sense of the use of the term "sub-mediant" for the sixth
degree, being the mediant below, to the dominant below, as the mediant
above is to the dominant above.
ns
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