diatonic function
chord area

Each triad found in a diatonic key corresponds to a particular diatonic function.

In the United States, Germany, and other places the diatonic functions are:

In equal temperament, as on a piano, these intervals are indistinguishable by sound, but the diatonic function of the notes incorporated might be very different.

A scale of stability among consonant harmonies [see diatonic function].

(For more information regarding chord functions see diatonic function.)

Pandiatonic music is diatonic music without the use of diatonic functions.

The dominant function (diatonic function) has the role of creating instability that requires the tonic for resolution.

There are also a number of minute intervals not found in the chromatic scale or labeled with a diatonic function, which have names of their own.

(Thompson), see diatonic function.

In music, a contrast chord is an auxiliary chord formed from one of the three primary triads and sharing its diatonic function.

(See Diatonic function)

As with other chords which may or tend to precede the dominant the subdominant diatonic function acts as a dominant preparation or predominant.

As a diatonic function the leading-note is the seventh scale degree of any diatonic scale when the distance between it and the tonic is a single semitone.

In musical analysis (see diatonic functions), a secondary dominant is notated with a slash separating the tonicized scale degree and the type of secondary dominant chord used.

In tonal music theory, a diatonic function (also chord area) is the specific, recognized role of each of the 7 notes and their chords in relation to the diatonic key.

Each degree of a diatonic scale, as well as each of many chromatically-altered notes, has a different diatonic function as does each chord built upon those notes.

The tonic diatonic function includes four separate activities or roles as the principal goal tone, initiating event, generator of other tones, and the stable center neutralizing the tension between dominant and subdominant.

When played on a piano keyboard, these intervals are indistinguishable as they are all played with the same two keys, but in a musical context the diatonic function of the notes incorporated is very different.

In music theory, the tonic parallel (relative chord, German: Parallelklang) is a diatonic function and chord, relative to the tonic, and thus considered to have or fulfill the function of the tonic.

However, since the structural meaning of a chord depends exclusively upon the degree of the scale on which it is built, chords are usually analysed by numbering them, using Roman numerals, upwards from the key-note (See diatonic function).

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In tonal music theory, a diatonic function (also chord area) is the specific, recognized role of each of the 7 notes and their chords in relation to the diatonic key.