Leading Note

in music. The sharp seventh of the diatonic scale, which leads to the octave, only half a tone higher.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lea
Leaba na Feine [Beds of the Feïne]
Leach, Leachcraft
Lead (pronounced lÄ—d)
Lead (pronounce leed)
Leaden Hail (Showers of)
Leaden Hall (pronounce leden)
Leader (A)
Leading Case (A)
Leading Note
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League
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