<div>Let's leave gendered analogies out of this--especially as they relate to power dynamics.</div><div> </div><div>I teach that the tonic is the primary *defined* tone of a key, while the dominant is the primary *defining* tone, an idea consonant (pun intended) with Michael's and David's characterizations of relative rest and tension or directionality.  I'm away from home right now and can't check my library, but I think that I first read this description in Barbara Barry's _Musical Time: The Sense of Order_.</div>
<div> </div><div>All best,</div><div>Nicole Biamonte</div><div>McGill University<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Leinberger, Charles F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlesl@utep.edu" target="_blank">charlesl@utep.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">May I suggest that in the hierarchy of scale degrees, the tonic is the King.<span>  </span>The dominant, however, is the Queen, without whom the King has no real power. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11pt"><span>J</span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">C.L.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">*<span>  </span>**<span>  </span>***<span>  </span>*****<span>  </span>********<span>  </span>************* <br>
Charles Leinberger, Ph.D., Associate Professor.<br> Department of Music, The University of Texas at El Paso.<br> 500 West University Avenue, El Paso TX 79968-0552 (U.S.A.)<br> <a href="tel:%28915%29%20747-7800" target="_blank" value="+19157477800">(915) 747-7800</a> Office  <a href="tel:%28915%29%20747-5023" target="_blank" value="+19157475023">(915) 747-5023</a> Fax.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> <a href="mailto:smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org" target="_blank">smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org" target="_blank">smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David K Feurzeig<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 04, 2012 10:29 AM<br><b>To:</b> Michael Luxner<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr" target="_blank">nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr</a>; Dimitar N Ninov; <a href="mailto:smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org" target="_blank">smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a></span><div class="im">
<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Smt-talk] The "Governing tone"<u></u><u></u></div><p></p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Michael Luxner wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div style="margin:3pt 3pt 0.75pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Skia","serif";font-size:13.5pt">How do you feel about considering the dominant the "governing tone?"  I don't think it's strange at all, and teach it that way all the time.  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>This is exactly how I think of, and teach, the dominant function. In the common practice, the dominant goes to the tonic--so normatively that when it doesn't, we deem this "deceptive" or otherwise exceptional. The tonic, by contrast, has no "valency;" it does not "demand" anything of its successor sonority.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>David Feurzeig<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>University of Vermont<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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