Tonic and mediant relationship
What Tonic and mediant relationship means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The defining interval is between scale degree 1, the tonic, and scale degree 3, the mediant, three semitones apart.
The defining interval of major tonality lies between scale degree 1, the tonic, and scale degree 3, the mediant.
Topics that use Tonic and mediant relationship
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Tonality (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Cadences and modulation
- Effect of omitting semitone steps
- Interval calculation
- Interval of a minor third
- Interval recognition
- Key signatures
- Major and minor patterns
- Major scale construction
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