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The tonic is the first note of a musical scale, and in the tonal method of music composition it is extremely important. The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord, is thus the most important chord. More generally, the tonic is the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically centered. In music, a scale is an unordered collection of notes or pitches, as opposed to a series of intervals, which is a musical mode. ...
Tonality is the character of music written with hierarchical relationships of pitches, rhythms, and chords to a center or tonic. ...
A musical composition is a piece of original music designed for repeated performance (as opposed to strictly improvisational music, in which each performance is unique). ...
In music and music theory, a chord (from the middle English cord, short for accord) is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ...
In music and music theory, a chord (from the middle English cord, short for accord) is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ...
A hierarchy (in Greek hieros, sacred, and arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things or people. ...
After tonic, the names of the remaining scale degrees (of a diatonic scale) in order are as follows: Supertonic-2nd scale degree, Mediant-3rd Scale degree, Subdominant-4th Scale degree, Dominant-5th Scale degree, Submediant-6th Scale degree, Leading Tone-7th Scale degree, Subtonic-Also 7th scale degree, but applying to the lowered 7th found in the natural minor scale. In music or music theory, the supertonic is the second degree of the scale, it is the second note of a diatonic scale. ...
For mediant in mathematics, see Mediant (mathematics) In music, the mediant is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ...
In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth degree of the scale. ...
The word dominant has several possible meanings: In music theory, the dominant or dominant note (second most important) of a key is that which is a perfect fifth above the tonic; in just intonation the note whose pitch is 1. ...
In music, the submediant is the sixth degree of the scale. ...
In music theory, a leading-tone (called the leading-note outside the US) is a note or pitch which resolves or leads to a note one semitone higher or lower, being a lower and upper leading-tone, respectively. ...
In music, the subtonic is the lowered seventh degree of the scale, as opposed to the leading tone. ...
A minor scale in musical theory can be viewed as the sixth mode of the major scale. ...
In western European tonal music of the 18th and 19th centuries, the tonic center was the most important of all the different tone centers which a composer used in a piece of music, with most pieces beginning and ending on the tonic, usually travelling to the dominant (the fifth above the tonic, or the fourth note up from the tonic) in between. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
In music, the dominant is the fifth degree of the scale. ...
A fifth may mean any of three things: 1. ...
There can be major scales and minor scales. The tonic remains the same in these two different "modes," for a given key, wheareas scale degrees such as the third degree and the sixth degree are altered in the minor scale. In music theory, the major scale (or major mode) is one of the diatonic scales. ...
A minor scale in musical theory is a diatonic scale whose third scale degree is an interval of a minor third above the tonic. ...
In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ...
In music theory, the key identifies the tonic triad, the chord, major or minor, which represents the final point of rest for a piece, or the focal point of a section. ...
In music or music theory a scale degree is an individual note of a scale, both its pitch and its diatonic function. ...
Howevever, this can be seen another way. Each Minor scale uses exactly the same set of notes (key signature) as some Major scale and vice-versa. The only difference is which of these notes is the tonic. For example, C major and A minor have no sharps or flats. Consequently, the tonic plays an important part in determining why music composed in a minor scale sounds different from music composed in a major scale. In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be played one semitone higher or lower unless otherwise noted with an accidental. ...
A tonic may be considered a tonal center, while a pitch center functions referentially or contextually in an atonal context, often acting as axis or line of symmetry in an interval cycle (Samson 1977). Pitch centricity was coined by Arthur Berger in his "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky". In music, interval cycles, unfold a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class, and are notated by George Perle using the letter C, for cycle, with an interval class integer to distinguish the interval. ...
Arthur Berger (May 15, 1912 in New York, NY - Oct 7, 2003) was a composer who has been described as a New Mannerist. ...
See also
Tonality is the character of music written with hierarchical relationships of pitches, rhythms, and chords to a center or tonic. ...
In music, the dominant is the fifth degree of the scale. ...
For mediant in mathematics, see Mediant (mathematics) In music, the mediant is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ...
In music or music theory, the supertonic is the second degree of the scale, it is the second note of a diatonic scale. ...
In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth degree of the scale. ...
In the church modes of Gregorian chant a final is the note or pitch in which most chants in a given mode end. ...
The root (basse fondamentale) of a chord is the note upon which that chord is perceived or labelled as built or centered, the root of a chord in root position or normal form. ...
Sources - Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393021939.
- Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. 7th ed. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003. 32-33. ISBN 0-07-294262-2
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