Explore the Evolution and Development of Tonal Music

Abstract

The history of Western music composition can be said to be a development history with tonality as the main line, and the conditions for establishing tonality are centered on the authentic cadence of "I-V-I". The research results show that the development history of tonality is a development history with "domination-main" as the axis. The purpose of this thesis is to study the evolution process of orthodox termination in the history of Western music. What are the differences of harmonic techniques in stating tonality when composers in different periods maintain the condition of "I-V-I" in constructing tonality. The results show that the history of tonal development is a history centered on "possession-main".