| Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the subdominant. |
| Merler found that A. ostoyae killed mostly subdominant balsam and spruce at this site. |
| Conversely, subdominant fish were diurnal and occupied large home ranges by day but were generally not observed at night. |
| At night, some subdominant fish can be observed in pool and riffle margins, although numbers are low relative to the number of fish active by day. |
| 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. |
| In major keys, the supertonic triad is a minor triad, because the interval between the supertonic and the subdominant is a minor 3rd. |
