Again this is a very difficult time for teachers that are noticed. Being pink slipped can bring up a lot of feelings having to do with work and personal family concerns. I wanted to write this blog post to connect to teachers that are pink slipped and to let them know that they are not alone.
Pedal tone example. The repeated d in the first measure is the pedal point. Play. In tonal music, a pedal point (also pedal tone, pedal note, organ point, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign, i.e., dissonant harmony is sounded in the other parts.
In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale and the tonal center or final resolution tone. The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord, is thus the most significant chord. More generally, the tonic is the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically referenced. Scales are named after their tonics, thus the tonic of the scale of C is the note C.