leading tone

1. 1.

   (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

   Synonymssubtonic

   Broadernote

   music

Questions about leading tone

What does leading tone mean?

leading tone means "(music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale".

What is another word for leading tone?

Close synonyms include subtonic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leading tone a common word?

leading tone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.