| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SOLFA | Tonic scale | |
| SOL-FA | The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n. | |
| SUBTONIC | The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone. | |
| PLAGAL | Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. | |
| KEYNOTE | The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone. | |
| COPPERAS | ...alline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the ... | |