Mus. [SUPER- 5 b.] The note next above the tonic; the second of the scale. Also attrib. applied to a chord having this note for its root.

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1806.  Callcott, Mus. Gram., II. v. 135. The Supertonic, or second above the Key-note.

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1867.  Macfarren, Harmony (1892), 128. The chromatic raising of the 3rd in the supertonic chord.

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1868.  Ouseley, Harmony, xi. (1875), 128. The dominant of a dominant, i. e. the supertonic.

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1889.  Prout, Harmony, xiii. 135. The chord of the supertonic seventh. Ibid., 144. The dominant seventh resolves on the tonic, submediant, or subdominant chord, or on a supertonic discord.

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