Double tonic
A double tonic is a
pendular thirds).[1]
It is extremely common in
Asian music, and European music, including:[3]
- Sumer is Icumen in"
- The Woods so Wild" and "Dargason"
- tonic-dominant
- Alternating 'discords' such as in Debussy or Stravinsky
- Gustav Mahler has also used this kind of musical pendulum motion[citation needed]
- "Scottish" and European music such as "Donald MacGillavry"
- Sea shanties and other work songs such as "Drunken Sailor", "Roun' de Corn, Sally", and "Shallow Brown", and in
- Football chants such as:
In
spiritual "Rock my Soul" though American popular music began to use the double tonic commonly in the last half of the 1900s,[3] including Beck's "Puttin It Down".[4]
Double tonic patterns may be classified as beginning on the lower ("Sumer is Icumen in", "The Woods so Wild", "
Am|G|Am-G|Am||
They are also often varied through a binary scheme ending on the dominant then tonic, as in:
Am|G|Am|E|| Am|G|Am-G|Am||
or,
Am|G|Am|E|| Am|G|Am-E|Am||
A variation of this last progression is the passamezzo antico.[5]
See also
- Co-tonic
- Secondary tonic
- Supertonic
- Subtonic
- Level (music)
References
- ^ ISBN 0-19-316121-4.
- ^ van der Merwe (1989), p.208.
- ^ a b van der Merwe (1989), p.206
- ^ "Beck - Puttin It Down tab", GuitareTab.com.
- ^ a b van der Merwe (1989), p.207
