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Co-tonic
A modal frame in music is "a number of types permeating and unifying Music of Africa, African, Music of Europe, European, and Music of the United States, American song" and melody., quoted in Richard Middleton (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music'', p. 203. Philadelphia: Open University Press. . It may also be called a melodic mode. "Mode" and "frame" are used interchangeably in this context without reference to scalar or rhythmic modes. Melodic modes define and generate melodies that are not determined by harmony, but purely by melody. A note frame, is a melodic mode that is Atonality, atonic (without a tonic (music), tonic), or has an unstable tonic. Modal frames may be defined by their: *floor note: the bottom of the frame, felt to be the lowest note, though isolated notes may go lower, *ceiling note: the top of the frame, *central note: the center around which other notes cluster or gravitate, *upper or lower focus: portion of the mode on which the melody temporarily dwells, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Tonic
A double tonic is a chord progression, melodic motion, or shift of level consisting of a, "regular back-and-forth motion," in melody similar to Bruno Nettl's pendulum type though it uses small intervals, most often a whole tone though may be almost a semitone to a minor third (see pendular thirds). van der Merwe, Peter (1989). ''Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music'', p.205. Oxford: Clarendon Press. . It is extremely common in African music ("Mkwaze mmodzi"), Asian music, and European music, including:van der Merwe (1989), p.206 * European Middle Ages music such as " Sumer is Icumen in" * Elizabethan popular music such as "The Woods so Wild" and " Dargason" *Classical music featuring the regular alternation of tonic-dominant *Alternating ' discords' such as in Debussy or Stravinsky *Gustav Mahler has also used this kind of musical pendulum motion *" Scottish" and European music such as " Donald MacGillavry" *Sea shanties and other work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |