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- Dominant - a. - Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
- Dominant - n. - The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
- Plagal - a. - Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.
- Key - n. - A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
- Cadence - n. - The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
- Fifth - n. - The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
- Enslave - v. t. - To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
- Turk - n. - A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
- Magyar - n. - One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.
- Ninth - n. - A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
- Mediant - n. - The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
- Dominant - n. - The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
- Authentic - n. - Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.
- Osmanli - n. - A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
- Ideo-motor - a. - Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence.
- Dominant - a. - Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
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