Degree (tonal music)
See also: Degree
In the Western music, the degrees are the notes which fulfill a tonal function and harmonic of foreground. These essential notes, which correspond to the seven degrees of the diatonic scale, are thus opposed to the notes approval , whose decorative role has little incidence on the Tonalité - one speaks in this case about secondary notes or additional notes .
In the tonal range, the various degrees are organized around a degree principal, called tonic or first degree, which gives its name to the tonality which is associated for him. For example, it tonic C corresponds to the tonality of C , and vice versa.
In the tonal music, the various degrees of a Tonality, of a range, a mode, are frequently represented by Roman numerals - the names of degrees in small letters are employed little.
- SENSITIVE VIIe degree or - or Subtonic, according to the case;
- Life degree or Submediant;
- Ve degree or DOMINANT;
- IVe degree or SUB-DOMINANT;
- IIIe degree or Mediant;
- IIe degree or Supertonic;
- TONIC Ier degree or .
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Note:: when a heptatonic range - of seven degrees - is derived from the diatonic scale, that a tonic is defined, and, a perfect fifth above, a dominant , “ this range can then be regarded as a tonality ”.
Related articles
- natural Range
- Ranges and temperaments
- theoretical and technical Glossary of the elementary Western music
- tonal Harmony
- List of the ranges
- Musicology
- Musical theory and intonation
- tonal System
- Musical theory and method
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