Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- degree
- Subclass of
- degree
- Part of
- scale
- Followed by
- supertonic
- Follows
- leading-tone
- Image
- Parallel tonic chords on C.png
- Said to be same as
- Shadja
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- Commons category
- Tonic (music)
- facet of
- key
- different from
- soft drink
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In music, "tonic" refers to the originating note or chord of a particular key.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tonic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.