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The '''tonic''' is the first note of a [[scale]] or [[mode]], and typically serves as one, or often more, of the following— the primary ''tonal center'', the main resolution tone, one of the most common initiating events of a piece, the generator of other tones either harmonically or subharmonically, and or a discourager against the usage of other microtonally nearby pitches.

The '''tonic''' is the first note of a [[scale]] or [[mode]], and typically serves as one, or often more, of the following— the primary ''tonal center'', the main resolution tone, one of the most common initiating events of a piece, the most important melodic and or harmonic anchor in tonal music, the generator of other tones either harmonically or subharmonically, and or a discourager against the usage of other microtonally nearby pitches.

Given all this, it is the only function that is known to be universal when it comes to tonal music, with the various other functions being collectively defined as ''nontonic'', thus, it should not come as a great surprise that the tonic exerts a very powerful influence on the context of functional harmony regardless of the nature of the tonal music system in question, even helping to define aspects of the other primary functions on the chord level as opposed to the root level.

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-The '''tonic''' is the first note of a [[scale]] or [[mode]], and typically serves as one, or often more, of the following— the primary ''tonal center'', the main resolution tone, one of the most common initiating events of a piece, the generator of other tones either harmonically or subharmonically, and or a discourager against the usage of other microtonally nearby pitches.
+The '''tonic''' is the first note of a [[scale]] or [[mode]], and typically serves as one, or often more, of the following— the primary ''tonal center'', the main resolution tone, one of the most common initiating events of a piece, the most important melodic and or harmonic anchor in tonal music, the generator of other tones either harmonically or subharmonically, and or a discourager against the usage of other microtonally nearby pitches.
 Given all this, it is the only function that is known to be universal when it comes to tonal music, with the various other functions being collectively defined as ''nontonic'', thus, it should not come as a great surprise that the tonic exerts a very powerful influence on the context of functional harmony regardless of the nature of the tonal music system in question, even helping to define aspects of the other primary functions on the chord level as opposed to the root level.