Klarinet Archive - Posting 000438.txt from 2000/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tonic
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:04:56 -0400

> Would anyone care to discuss how often 'real' music (as opposed to
> 'easy music for beginners', which is greatly simplified and edited)
> begins and/or ends on the tonic note or the tonic chord?

The answers to this question have pointed out another problem with the
question itself. I interpreted it to refer to melodies and the scale degree
on which they begin or end. Others have taken the question to relate to
harmony and the tonic chord.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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