How To Use tonic key In A Sentence
- The first modulates from the tonic key and concludes with a cadence in a related key, usually the dominant for pieces in the major, the relative major for pieces in the minor.
- A real answer would modulate to the supertonic key, far from the tonic in which the subject is about to return; an adjustment is made so that the answer ends in the tonic key.
- The noble falling fourths, echoed by the piano, re-establish the tonic key unambiguously.
