tonic key

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the basic key in which a piece of music is written

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Significantly, the harmonies do not settle into the tonic key by the end of line 4 but rather cadence in the nontonic key of F minor, thus underlining the restless passion here.

Though his song, like Schumann's, begins with an off-tonic opening (no doubt reflecting the "storm" of the text), it moves firmly to the tonic key, A[flat], by the end of the phrase, along with a descrescendo and dip in register that underlines the resolution here (ex.

Their paths, her ways: comparison of text settings by Clara Schumann and other composers

The third main period is structured very similarly to the first main period, except that it remains in the tonic key. In fact, not only is the melodic material similar, but the last half of the third main period is copied almost exactly from the last half of the first main period.

Fairly short, its main purpose is to use melodic expansion techniques to modulate back to the tonic key for the start of the final solo section.

Mozart's horn concerto no. 2 and the theories of Heinrich Koch

Thus, arrival in the tonic key, C minor, is withheld until the end of this sequence at m.

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

45-58), and even defended against what Darcy terms the "Dahlhaus myth," that is, the wholesale rejection of the architectonic-schematic orientation of Lorenz's analyses (and the premise of form-defining tonality) in favor of the model of "logical," processive form, a loosely - even scarcely - defined "web" of motivic relations, and a "centrifugal" or "wandering" tonality in which the role of a central, unifying tonic key recedes behind that of free-ranging tonal excursions away from merely temporary, provisional centers (see pp.

Wagner's "Das Rheingold."

Fussl shows that Schubert minimizes and thwarts the power of the tonic key in the Reliquie's first movement and explains how the composer's techniques of thematic fragmentation and transformation, modal mixture, and modulation (often through enharmonic redefinition) account for his novel style.

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