tonic
[Eng.]
The note upon which a scale or key is based; the first note of a scale or key; the keynote.
SUGGESTED LISTENING EXAMPLES:
- Tonic/dominant, opposition of, Baroque:
Couperin: Second livre de clavecin, "les barricades misterieuses" - W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 2, Track 60
- Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080. Contrapunctus 1
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 1, Track 25
- Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 (opening of the fugue)
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 1, Track 17
- Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 11, No. 3, III
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 1, Track 21
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