When the tone figures as an element in a musical context, a new quality is added, a tendencial quality. The tone is now part of a system, or order, and demonstrates this fact dynamically through that quality.

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People talked in the play of the “English vice” till at length the protagonist, Mr. Daventry, turns round and asks: “Is there such a thing, Lady Hillington, as an English vice?” “Oh,” retorted the clever woman, “I thought every one knew that, Mr. Daventry; the English vice is adultery with home comforts.”