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supertonic

[John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

In traditional [music] theory, the supertonic is the second degree of the [diatonic] scale.

The term is also applied to chords whose root is this degree, often the 9/8 or 10/9 ratios or 200 cents (¢).

In general, the supertonic is the octave complement of the subtonic.

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[Joe Monzo]

The supertonic is generally labeled with the Roman numeral II.

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