Mediant

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{{Image frame|content= { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4 d \once \override NoteHead.color = #red e f \once \override NoteHead.color = #red g a \once \override NoteHead.color = #red b \time 2/4 c2 \bar "||" \time 4/4 1 \bar "||" } } { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4 d \once \override NoteHead.color = #red es f \once \override NoteHead.color = #red g aes \once \override NoteHead.color = #red bes \time 2/4 c2 \bar "||" \time 4/4 1 \bar "||" } } |width=310|caption=The scale and mediant triad in C major (top) and C minor (bottom).}}In music, the mediant (Latin: "being in the middle" ) is the third scale degree ( ) of a diatonic scale, being the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant. In the movable do solfège system, the mediant note is sung as mi. While the fifth scale degree is almost always a perfect fifth, the mediant can be a major or minor third. Schenkerian analysts consider the mediant (third scale degree) as an expansion or extension of the tonic since they are both common tones of the tonic chord. Thus, the third degree of a tonic triad is also the mediant iii note; furthermore, the 5th degree of the submediant chord vi is also the mediant iii note.…

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