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In this episode I explain what tonality is and how (in connection with it) we define the different degrees of scales. Please note! This episode requires a good understanding of intervals and their inversions, and I talked about that in the previous episodes. Intervals, the diatonic scale, and... Latin • 010 - Intervals, the diatonic scale, and.... Fractions versus intervals, or where the semitone comes from • 005 - Fractions versus intervals, or ... Issues covered in this episode 0:00 - 1:46 - Introduction 1:46 - 3:58 - We divide the scale into degrees 3:58 - 6:43 - Tonic 6:43 - 10:12 - Dominant 10:12 - 13:22 - Subdominant, or the lower dominant 13:22 - 16:17 - Leading sound, but where to? 16:17 - 18:19 - Mediant 18:19 - 20:33 - Submediant, or lower mediant 20:33 - 23:57 - Supertonic 23:57 - 28:32 - What is tonality then? 28:32 - 31:54 - Psychoacoustic thread 31:54 - 33:51 - Glossary CORRECTION: 12:15 - I accidentally played a third (CE) instead of a fourth (CF). However, apart from that, everything is substantively correct.