In the last measure but one, both the supertonic and leading tone should appear. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons] Reference
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 triad even when it is leading to the dominant chord. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
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 much more radical and ear-catching formal device than a dominant pedal. From Wordnik.com. ['Music à La Mode'] Reference
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 version of Scotland but everyone since has used it from Maurice Jarre in Lawrence of Arabia to Jerry Goldsmith in The Mummy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
The major third prediction is brought about all the more strongly by having heard the tonic and supertonic from the western equal-tempered system already, i.e. why would the audience sing any other third tuned differently when they have already been placed within the western tuning system from the initial equal tempered notes?. From Wordnik.com. [World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo] Reference
It's a lively melody in 9/8, ending on the supertonic. From Wordnik.com. [The Sandgate Lass on the Ropery Banks] Reference
Castelvetrano, but had not noticed that it was a particularly noisy place, indeed, I could no more have distinguished between the tranquillity of Castelvetrano and that of the mountain than between the acute and the grave supertonic. From Wordnik.com. [Diversions in Sicily] Reference
In ascending they pass over the grave supertonic and take the acute supertonic, and in descending they pass over the acute supertonic and take the grave supertonic; the two supertonics being only a comma apart, as the two islands are only a very little way from one another. From Wordnik.com. [Diversions in Sicily] Reference
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