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| Musicians often refer to scale degrees by a set of traditional names rather than numbers. Notice that the seventh scale degree has two different names, depending on whether it is raised or lowered.
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| The origin of some of these names is not what you would expect. For example, subdominant does not mean "below the dominant." The chart illustrates the concept of a dominant a perfect fifth above the tonic, and another a perfect fifth below. The mediants follow the same concept.
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