tonic

Examples

• All

• Start with tonic and dominant patterns in major and minor keys.

  Academic text (1999)

• I set up the tonality by playing a scale and tonic-dominant arpeggios in the key.

  Academic text (2009)

• After students learn the pentatonic scale, use the tonic note of a melody as a drone.

  Academic text (1997)

• Continue to provide pattern instruction using tonic, dominant, and subdominant patterns in major and minor tonalities.

  Academic text (2003)

• Simple steps such as these do much to build students' aural awareness, including the ability to audiate the resting tone, or tonic, of music they hear, sing, and play.

  Academic text (1999)

• If students are taught the terms tonic and dominant and know which pitches are in which chord, then improvisation with comprehension can occur.

  Academic text (2008)

• The use of tonic sol-fa syllables helps singers feel oriented in the chord.

  Academic text (2004)

• Children need to be taught to hear and label the differences between major and minor tonality, duple and triple meters, tonic and dominant harmonic functions, and so forth.

  Academic text (2008)

• The musician who recognizes and hears do-mi-sol as the tonic triad in major will compare that with la-do-mi in minor and realize whether a melody is in major or minor tonality, regardless of the printed key signature.

  Academic text (2011)

• The tonic note of the scale gives the music its foundation and sense of resolution.

Compounds

G

gin and tonic

18 2.7

A cold drink made with gin and tonic water and served with ice and lime

T

tonic water

2 2.5

A fizzy drink with a bitter taste often mixed with gin

H

hair tonic

• Archaic

1 3.7

A liquid you put on hair to make it look neat, make it easier to manage, or help the scalp

S

splash of tonic

1 2.3

A small amount of tonic water added to a drink to give flavor

T

tonic accent

• Specialized

9.1

Emphasis on a syllable shown by a change to a higher or lower voice

T

tonic epilepsy

• Specialized

6.9

A seizure that makes the muscles suddenly become very stiff

T

tonic key

• Specialized

8.1

The main note and scale that a piece of music returns to

T

tonic solfa

• UK

9.1

A way of writing music with syllables like do, re, mi to show the notes of a scale

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Etymology