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Also known as tonic (key note)

tonal center of a diatonic scale

Wikidata facts

Instance of
degree
Subclass of
degree
Part of
scale
Followed by
supertonic
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.