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### 1.127 leading note

ES: sensible, I: sensibile, F: note sensible, D: Leitton, NL: leidtoon, DK: ledetone, S: ledton, FI: johtosävel.

The seventh →scale degree, a →semitone below the tonic; so called because of its strong tendency to “lead up” (resolve upwards) to the tonic scale degree.

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