I'm guessing you're looking for dominant? If so I consider it a flawed analogy... the dominant is not really the opposite of the tonic.

Anyway I'm not a big fan of the DCI stuff. But that's probably typical of a woodwind player who's never even played in a marching band!

Yeah, that's why there were 100 kids in band and 25 in orchestra in middle school, right? :D
And tonic dominant rule still applies! Tonic dominant IS Western music.

Well you get my gist, don't you. Or do you prefer gest.

Picky.
Brass rules woodwinds. You are teh sux0rs! There's no room for you in drum and bugle, hence it is drum and bugle minus woodies! :p

I was a drummer in band in JHS and HS and I loved every minute of it. When I was in boot camp I was in the band there too. You never heard Semper Paratus played 'till your herd it from the middle of the drum line.
Keep your cuntry, keep your disco, I'll take John Philip Sousa any day.
Only the best get to play in a marching band.:band:

Not in my school; we were about even in numbers. Guess I went to a classier high school than you did. :)

Melodic percussion ... I played xylophone in my high school marching band.

I wasn't really big on brasses, but could play trumpet, a bit, so I could have picked up bugle fairly easy. I was actually a Clarinet player for the most part.