Usually means: Seventh scale degree, lowered pitch.
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  1. subtonic: Merriam-Webster
  2. subtonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subtonic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subtonic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subtonic: Vocabulary.com
  6. subtonic: Wordnik
  7. subtonic: Wiktionary
  8. subtonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. subtonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. subtonic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. subtonic: Dictionary.com
  12. Subtonic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. subtonic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. subtonic: Rhymezone
  15. Subtonic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. subtonic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. subtonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. subtonic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Subtonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subtonic)

adjective:  (phonetics, dated) Of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated sounds or utterances that are inaudible or barely audible, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation, 1833).
noun:  (music) The note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale.
noun:  (phonetics, dated) An imperfectly articulated sound or utterance, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation, 1833).

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