A double tonic is a chord progression, melodic motion, or shift of level consisting of a "regular back-and-forth motion" in melody similar to Bruno Nettl's pendulum type[clarification needed] though it uses small intervals, most often a whole tone though may be almost a semitone to a minor third (see pendular thirds).[1]
"Donald MacGillavry"[2]Playⓘ: double tonic a whole tone apart, on the upper note (A).
It is extremely common in African music ("Mkwaze mmodzi"[clarification needed]), Asian music, and European music, including:[3]
European Middle Ages music such as "Sumer is Icumen in"
Elizabethan popular music such as "The Woods so Wild" and "Dargason"
Classical music featuring the regular alternation of 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:
"Chel-sea" football crowd chant:[1] minor third.
In American music, a rare example of a double-tonic is the 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", "The Irish Washerwoman") or upper (most Scottish tunes, passamezzo antico, "Roun' de Corn, Sally", "Shallow Brown", "Mkwaze mmodzi") note and may repeat open endedly, though they are often closed through a tonic close, as in :[5]
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]
^ abvan der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music, p.205. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-316121-4.
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