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The 14 pages that link to Tonic (music), each with the reason it gives.

• Twelve-bar bluesRelated: The tonic chord anchors the cycle and establishes its home key.

• Drone (music)Related: A tonic drone anchors music by continuously sounding its tonal center.

• Modal musicRelated: A mode’s identity depends partly on which note serves as its tonal center.

• Tonal musicRelated: It is the tonal center toward which other pitches and chords are heard as moving.

• Musical scaleRelated: Scale notes gain a sense of stability or tension in relation to the tonic.

• DastgahRelated: A dastgah establishes and revisits tonal centers that orient its melodic movement.

• Key signatureRelated: The signature narrows likely tonal centers, but the tonic must be inferred from the music.

• MaqamRelated: A maqam's resting pitch gives melodic phrases a sense of return and resolution.

• Roman numeral analysisRelated: The I or i chord marks the tonal center in a numeral analysis.

• Major scaleRelated: The tonic anchors the major scale and gives its notes their degree numbers.

• Minor scaleRelated: The minor scale’s intervals are measured from this central pitch.

• TahrirRelated: A singer’s ornamented line gains direction from its relationship to a modal center.

• TimpaniRelated: Timpani parts often emphasize a movement's tonic and dominant.

• Major and minorRelated: The tonic anchors both modes and gives their scale degrees a shared reference.