Usually means: Seventh scale degree, resolves upward.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. leading tone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leading tone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leading tone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leading tone: Vocabulary.com
  5. leading tone: Wiktionary
  6. leading tone: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. leading tone: Dictionary.com
  8. Leading-tone, Leading tone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. leading tone: Rhymezone
  10. leading tone: Free Dictionary
  11. leading tone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. leading tone: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See leading_tones as well.)

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noun:  (music) scale degree seven when the first scale degree is one half step higher than the seventh scale degree

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