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What is a subdominant?

What is a subdominant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) The fourth tone of a scale.
  2. (music) The triad built on the subdominant tone.
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We may take Scolia for an example of a subdominant group beginning more southward.
The genus Mele affords an instance of a subdominant group of the first description.
Not only does the subdominant come too late in the movement for this key to function as anything other than a component, on a large scale, of a plagal cadence.
Merler found that A. ostoyae killed mostly subdominant balsam and spruce at this site.
In major keys, the supertonic triad is a minor triad, because the interval between the supertonic and the subdominant is a minor 3rd.
The Mother's theme begins in the key of D minor, but shifts abruptly, in measure 5, to a tonicization of the key of the subdominant, G minor.

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