Tonic Note Of A Scale

Tonal middle of a diatonic scale

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Calibration and tonic triad in C major (summit) and C minor (bottom).

In music, the tonic is the commencement scale degree ( ) of the diatonic scale (the first notation of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone^[1] that is usually used in the concluding cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music. In the movable do solfège system, the tonic note is sung as do. More by and large, the tonic is the note upon which all other notes of a piece are hierarchically referenced. Scales are named after their tonics: for instance, the tonic of the C major scale is the note C.

The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord, is thus the most meaning chord in these styles of music. In Roman numeral analysis, the tonic chord is typically symbolized by the Roman numeral "I" if it is major and past "i" if it is pocket-size.

In very much conventionally tonal music, harmonic analysis will reveal a wide prevalence of the primary (often triadic) harmonies: tonic, ascendant, and subdominant (i.eastward., I and its chief auxiliaries a 5th removed), and peculiarly the first two of these.

—Drupe (1976)^[ii]

These chords may also appear equally seventh chords: in major, as I^M7, or in pocket-size equally i⁷ or rarely i^M7:^[three]

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The tonic is distinguished from the root, which is the reference notation of a chord, rather than that of the scale.

Importance and function [edit]

In music of the mutual practise menstruation, the tonic centre was the about important of all the dissimilar tone centers which a composer used in a piece of music, with most pieces beginning and catastrophe on the tonic, usually modulating to the dominant (the fifth scale caste above the tonic, or the 4th below information technology) in between.

Two parallel keys have the aforementioned tonic. For example, in both C major and C small-scale, the tonic is C. Even so, relative keys (two different scales that share a key signature) have dissimilar tonics. For example, C major and A minor share a fundamental signature that feature no sharps or flats, despite having dissimilar tonic pitches (C and A, respectively).

The term tonic may be reserved exclusively for apply in tonal contexts while tonal center and/or pitch center may be used in postal service-tonal and atonal music: "For purposes of non-tonal centric music, it might be a expert idea to have the term 'tone center' refer to the more general class of which 'tonics' (or tone centers in tonal contexts) could be regarded equally a subclass."^[iv] Thus, a pitch center may function referentially or contextually in an atonal context, often acting as an axis or line of symmetry in an interval cycle.^[5] The term pitch centricity was coined by Arthur Berger in his "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky".^[vi] According to Walter Piston, "the idea of a unified classical tonality replaced by nonclassical (in this example nondominant) centricity in a limerick is perfectly demonstrated by Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune".^[7]

The tonic includes iv separate activities or roles as the principal goal tone, initiating result, generator of other tones, and the stable center neutralizing the tension between dominant and subdominant.

See likewise [edit]

Final (music)
Double tonic
Subtonic
Supertonic

References [edit]

^ Benward, Bruce; Saker, Marilyn (2009). "Scales, Tonality, Key, Modes". Music in Theory and Practice (8th ed.). McGraw Hill. p. 28. ISBN978-0-07-310187-iii.
^ Drupe, Wallace (1976/1987). Structural Functions in Music, p. 62. ISBN 0-486-25384-viii.
^ Kostka, Stefan; Payne, Dorothy (2004). Tonal Harmony (5th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 234. ISBN0072852607. OCLC 51613969.
^ Berger (1963), p. 12. cited in Swift, Richard (Autumn 1982 – Summer 1983). "A Tonal Analog: The Tone-Centered Music of George Perle". Perspectives of New Music. 21 (1/two): 257–284 (258). JSTOR 832876.
^ Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900–1920. New York City: Westward. W. Norton. ISBN0-393-02193-9. OCLC 3240273. ^{[ folio needed ]}
^ Berger, Arthur (Fall–Winter 1963). "Issues of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky". Perspectives of New Music. two (1): 11–42. doi:x.2307/832252. JSTOR 832252.
^ Piston, Walter (1987/1941). Harmony, p. 529. 5th edition revised past Marker DeVoto. W. W. Norton, New York/London. ISBN 0-393-95480-3.