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Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the subdominant.
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.
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.
Conversely, subdominant fish were diurnal and occupied large home ranges by day but were generally not observed at night.
In most granite, the ratio of the dominant to the subdominant feldspar is less than two.
More conventional compositions of the day incorporated modulations to the dominant, subdominant, or relative major or minor.
The recapitulation starts, as in many of Schubert's early works, in the subdominant, rather than the tonic.
Where most people see a divine apparition, Schenker merely points out this passage as being only the entrance into the subdominant!
His discovery may lead him to improvise B sections in the subdominant.
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.
She still draws inspiration from music, particularly from what she calls dominant and subdominant themes.
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.
In the wild, killer whales vie for dominance but the subdominant animal then flees the scene and the conflict subsides.
Provision has been made for a maximum of two soil name codes each for the dominant and subdominant soils.
Caution is recommended when using soil name 2 in area calculations particularly for subdominant landscapes.
The chord part of the bass is determined by the tonic, subdominant or dominant major triads.
A preference for the subdominant is one of the things that distinguishes jazz harmony from regular harmony.
That Schubert is fond of modulating to the subdominant is well-known.
Soils of this subgroup are composed dominantly of the well-decomposed H horizon in the control section and may have subdominant F and O horizons each less than 10 cm thick.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At that point the suggested supporting harmony is an augmented triad upon the tonic leading into the subdominant.
The main theme at its third appearance is in the subdominant key, with effective rhythmic modifications.
The genus Mele affords an instance of a subdominant group of the first description.
We may take Scolia for an example of a subdominant group beginning more southward.
The third movement consists of a fine Adagio in E flat, in the key of the subdominant and in three-four time.
At the seventh bar there is modulation to the dominant, and at the ninth, to the subdominant, in which the opening theme recurs.
When the principal theme returns, it is clothed first with subdominant, then with tonic minor harmony.
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