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tonic

[English]

The note upon which a scale or key is based; the first note of a scale or key; the keynote.


Example


Opposition of Baroque: François Couperin: Second livre de clavecin, "les barricades misterieuses"


Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903


Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 11, No. 3, III


Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080. Contrapunctus 1



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