Leading tone

Leading note

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the seventh degree of a major scale

Le

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French

the; the lowered sixth degree of the major scale

Li

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the raised sixth degree of the major scale

Major Scale

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See Table of Key Signatures See Table of Major & Melodic minor Scales See Musical Scales

Degree

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the position of a note in the scale, for example, D is the second degree in the scale of C

Neapolitan sixth

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the first inversion of a major chord on the flattened second degree of a major scale

Seventh

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a major seventh is a semitone smaller than an octave; a minor seventh is a whole tone smaller than an octave

Amen Cadence

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A chord progression where the subdominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an plagal cadence…