Usage examples (8)

• In the last measure but one, both the supertonic and leading tone should appear.
• In this respect Palestrina's later style is apparent; but in harmonic terms he is still under Josquin's influence in, for instance, regularly using the minor supertonic...
• Like that dominant pedal that was supposed to have upset Haydn's contemporaries: Kramer never mentions that it resolves an earlier pedal on the flatted supertonic, a...
• As to the "Egyptian" sound, the whole exotic "Egyptian" scale, with its flattened supertonic was invented by Verdi for Aida it's about as authentic as Sir Walter Scott's...