dominant

fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale, between the subdominant and the submediant
Thing degree Q899391
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Summary

dominant is a degree[1]. dominant draws 281 Wikipedia views per month (degree category, ranking #2 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • dominant's instance of is recorded as degree[3].
  • dominant's audio is recorded as Dominant and tonic in C.mid[4].
  • dominant's follows is recorded as subdominant[5].
  • dominant's followed by is recorded as submediant[6].
  • dominant's said to be the same as is recorded as Panchama[7].
  • dominant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026x18[8].
  • dominant's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[9].
  • dominant's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • dominant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • dominant's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[12].
  • dominant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/dominant[13].
  • dominant's different from is recorded as fifth[14].
  • dominant's different from is recorded as dominant seventh chord[15].
  • dominant's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1964890[16].
  • dominant's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as dominant_-_musikk[17].
  • dominant's Larousse ID is recorded as musdico/dominante/167280[18].
  • dominant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 41004117[19].
  • dominant's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 4008028[20].
  • dominant's Lex ID is recorded as dominant[21].

Why It Matters

dominant draws 281 Wikipedia views per month (degree category, ranking #2 of 6).[2] dominant has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] dominant is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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