center is not very stable, for the dominant effect of the tritone does not permit the tone which would result from our reckoning to be completely satisfying as the tonal center. Dominate In such cases this tone too is of dominant effect, and thus we may say that in an unresolved series of chords of group II the tonal center is to be regarded as the dominant of a tonic lying below it. ‘This implied tonic is a fifth below the dominant because the un- resolved tritone of the final chord would resolve most naturally into an interval whose root would be a fifth below the root of the tritone chord. Successions of chords belonging to group IV do not need this special consideration, If a series of them occurs without a chord of resolution, the assumption of a tonic lying below their roots is un- necessaty. Chords of groups V and VI are treated, once their root hhas been determined, just like chords of Groups A or B with defi nite roots; in a long, uninterrupted succession of these chords (which in practice will hardly occur) the tonic could not be de- termined, and the tonal relationship of the succession would remain indefinite, [136] How many chords are needed to produce a tonal center? How is the Tons found? |A Chords without Teitones B Chords containing Tritones ‘2 horde chars ‘TONIG Hoot of se ‘oxic. at enordctooe ie 2.Choras Same as itt —— VI ter aotermination of tne 001, 10 roNte.