Klarinet Archive - Posting 000451.txt from 2000/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beginning and ending on the tonic
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:19:57 -0400

It all depends on what you mean by C major - the chord (if I remember
rightly) is the dominant seventh of F major, but its root is C; in the key
of C major, this is V7 of IV.
No time to amplify this...
Roger S.

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:25:14 -0700
> From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Beginning and ending on the tonic
>
> Certainly, it is safe to say that 99.9% of the music written in the
> classic period began and ended on the tonic. It was with Beethoven's
> 1st symphony that the break began. It's a symphony in C major yet it
> does not begin with a C major chord.
>
> In the case of Mozart, even his large scale pieces ended on the same key
> in which they began. The operas, for example, all show this particular
> scheme. They always end in the same key in which they began.
>
> But after 1800, the necessity to begin on the tonic was not a
> compositional practice, though many composers did it.
>
> I'm curious. Why is this question important to you?
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