Scale degree names

Question

1. If D is the Tonic, what is the Dominant?

2. If F# is the Leading Tone, what is the Sub-dominant?

3. If C is the Super-tonic, what is the Mediant?

4. If A is the Mediant, what is the Dominant?

 5. If A is the Tonic, what fancy name is used for B?

6. If A is the Sub-dominant, what fancy name is used for B?

7. If A is the Dominant, what fancy name is used for B?

8. If A is the Super-tonic, what fancy name is used for B?

Answer 1

Each step of the scale has a name that corresponds.

I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii I

I won't feed you the answer right here, but if you truly want to know, it's not hard. You just have to learn what each step is named. Of course I would help you in a real lesson...

Answer 2

These look like an entire set of homework questions, and I'm not going to feed you homework answers because long-term, that won't help you, besides the fact that it can cause some serious problems for you in high school or college.

Your difficulty answering these questions is probably due to lacking some understanding of at least one of these concepts:

1. The musical alphabet, not just starting on A, but on any letter, both forward and backward.
2. The names and order of scale degrees.
3. How scales are structured.

Here are some hints to help you with your questions.

1. The tonic is the first scale degree. The dominant is the fifth.
2. The "leading tone" is the seventh scale degree in a major scale. The tonic is both the first and the eighth. The sub-dominant is the fourth. So, if you know what comes after F#, that gives you the tonic. Now you can count up from the tonic in the musical alphabet to identify the sub-dominant.
3. The super-tonic is the second scale degree. The mediant is the third scale degree.
4. The mediant is the third scale degree. The dominant is the fifth scale degree.
5. I don't like the phrasing of the rest of these. It's not a "fancy name." It's just the name. Calling it the fancy name makes it sounds like there might be some other type of name and adds unnecessary confusion to the question. I would phrase this as: If A is the tonic, what is B? Since B is simply the next letter in the musical alphabet, it should also be the next scale degree. So what comes after the tonic?
6. What comes after the sub-dominant?
7. What comes after the dominant?
8. What comes after the super-tonic?