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...systems displayed side by side, assuming that the scale is ascending: Relationships of the names for the degrees of the scale ORDINALS CARDINALS, WITH CARETS ABOVE NAMES First degree 1̂ Tonic, or key note Second 2̂ Supertonic Third 3̂ Mediant Fourth 4̂ Subdominant Fifth 5̂ Dominant Sixth 6̂ Submediant Seventh 7̂ Leading note The names of the notes in the scale need...

...system of word endings to convey information such as the tense of a verb, the relationship between an adjective and the noun it describes, or the role of a noun within a sentence. This approach to conveying information would be recognisable to speakers of German, Russian, Finnish, or indeed any of a large group of ‘inflected’ languages, ‘inflection’ being the name...

...system where it was free at point of use in my schools. And that’s very different now. But that means that the barriers are often steeped in socioeconomic barriers as well as other really clear barriers like being disabled. There are many fewer disabled people working in orchestras. And I think that gender remains a barrier. There’s a lot of work that’s been done in...