[MUSC 203] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (75 pages long!)

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Tonic is the at the top, other pitches are subordinate. Tonic: the first and central note of a major or minor scale, the main key of a piece or movement in which the piece of movement begins and ends and to which all other keys are subordinate. In tonal music, the note and the chord [and key] a p5th above the tonic. The dominant functions as opposition to the tonic. Sonata multi movement structure where movements has a conventional order or behaviour. A way of proceeding within a single movement. I - sonata form: tonic key: allegro (perhaps with a slow intro) Ii - form not fixed (sonata; theme and variations; rounded binary etc): contrasting key (v, iv, vi etc): adagio or andante. Iii - ternary: minuet and trio: tonic key. Iv - finale (faster and shorter): form not fixed (sonata; rondo etc): tonic key: allegro, presto. Style of the 19th century is different from classical.

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