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The polarity between the tonic and dominant will provide you with the essential backbone of a melody, that centralizing stabelizing axis around wich the melody can be built.
The tonic note is the point of repose in the melody, which means that it is the note that usually brings a melodic phrase to a close.
For this reason it is sometimes called the "home note". The dominant, on the other hand, is the pole of activity around wich the melody tends to circle it returns back to the tonic.
For this reason is it not a idea to mark the tonic and dominant symbols for melodyconstructing in SFP?
Perhaps better is to give the tonic and dominant lines a color in the figure ?
Tue, 2012-01-24 - 22:36 Permalink
That's impossible, because the lines have a different meaning depending on the harmonic context. Figures are 100% relative.
Tue, 2012-01-24 - 22:48 Permalink
O.. i thought for the melody that the middle line is the tonic note of the choosen/existing key , than the fifth line must be than dominant note line
Well than it is not difficult to see look to the middle line and the fifth line and notice the movement from the tonic notes and the dominant notes ( The "fifth")
Thu, 2012-01-26 - 23:40 Permalink
The middle line has a different meaning per each symbol type. You are talking about the blue (horizontal) symbols only.