Mus. [SUB- 4 (c).] The sixth note of a scale, lying midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic. Also attrib.
1806. Calcott, Mus. Gram., II. v. 135. The submediant … varies also according to the Mode.
1889. Prout, Harmony, i. 16. We … call this sixth note the Submediant, or lower mediant. Ibid., xii. 131. The submediant chord in the minor key. Ibid. (1891), Counterpoint (ed. 2), 56. The submediant triad.
