PSYC56H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tonality, Major Scale, Tempo Rubato
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Tonality is one of the most widely studied musical structures! It refers to the arrangement of pitches and/or chords within of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. One note functions as a reference point for all of the tones, known as the tonic or tonal center. Other pitches have well-defined relation to tonal center called tonal function . In western music, we have two tonalities: major and minor. Sadder tone, not as much famous as major scale, because this have different forms. Difference is the 7th note: raise from bb (b-flat) to a b. Nature minor, its more stable like dor, re, mi, fa, so, la, ci, do. Can be transposed to begin on any of the 12 chromatic pitches (any of the 12 pitches can be the tonic: there are 12 major and 12 harmonic minor tonalities.
