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Mediant
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(music) the third degree of a diatonic scale, located midway between the tonic and the dominant
Grammatical Information
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Composition
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Plural form
mediants
Examples
In the C major scale, the mediant is the note E, which forms a major third above the tonic.
Lexical Tree
submediant
mediant
