submediant
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In music, the submediant is the sixth degree () of a diatonic scale. The submediant ("lower mediant") is named thus because it is halfway between the tonic and the subdominant ("lower dominant") or because its position below the tonic is symmetrical to that of the mediant above. (See the figure in the Degree (music) article.)
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “submediant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.