The cream is made in three color tones-the vanilla being the subdominant, as the chord is of subdominant character; the strawberry being the submediant, and the restful green the lowered supertonic or altered tone."
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
The red fire of greeting seemed to run from tree to tree, and all the lowlands for a mile were ablaze, as if some subdominant political party had won an unexpected victory and could not wait for night to light its fires of celebration.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard
In order to do this he was compelled to adopt the kind of formations still in use and the fundamental chord relations of modern music-the tonic, dominant and subdominant.
"Some Forerunners of Italian Opera"
William James Henderson