Function (music)

Diatonic function - specific, recognized role of each of the 7 tones and their chords in relation to the diatonic key. Article "Function (music)" in English Wikipedia has 40.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Function (music)", its content was written by 108 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 459 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 230 times in English Wikipedia and cited 745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22460 in August 2018
• Global: #30337 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #148842 in May 2010
• Global: #126410 in May 2020

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		72.0121
2	Swedish (sv) Funktionsanalys (musik)		55.6194
3	Chinese (zh) 和声功能		40.9312
4	English (en) Function (music)		40.7935
5	Vietnamese (vi) Công năng Diatonic		39.255
6	German (de) Funktionstheorie		38.9975
7	Portuguese (pt) Função (música)		34.9535
8	Serbian (sr) Теорија тоналних функција		33.575
9	Esperanto (eo) Funkciteorio		32.4897
10	Japanese (ja) 機能和声理論		30.2179

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Function (music)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Function (music)		851 849
2	German (de) Funktionstheorie		505 072
3	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		241 025
4	Swedish (sv) Funktionsanalys (musik)		172 979
5	Portuguese (pt) Função (música)		86 018
6	Russian (ru) Теория функций (музыка)		56 987
7	French (fr) Fonction (musique)		52 384
8	Norwegian (no) Funksjon (musikk)		44 626
9	Danish (da) Funktionsharmonisk analyse		33 650
10	Hebrew (he) הרמוניה טונאלית פונקציונלית		29 193

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Function (music)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Function (music)		3 379
2	German (de) Funktionstheorie		940
3	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		695
4	Swedish (sv) Funktionsanalys (musik)		524
5	Japanese (ja) 機能和声理論		312
6	Chinese (zh) 和声功能		250
7	Russian (ru) Теория функций (музыка)		235
8	French (fr) Fonction (musique)		163
9	Portuguese (pt) Função (música)		146
10	Vietnamese (vi) Công năng Diatonic		86

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Function (music)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Funktionstheorie		116
2	English (en) Function (music)		108
3	Swedish (sv) Funktionsanalys (musik)		36
4	Norwegian (no) Funksjon (musikk)		33
5	Hebrew (he) הרמוניה טונאלית פונקציונלית		30
6	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		26
7	French (fr) Fonction (musique)		24
8	Danish (da) Funktionsharmonisk analyse		21
9	Portuguese (pt) Função (música)		15
10	Russian (ru) Теория функций (музыка)		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Function (music)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) وظيفة (موسيقى)		0
2	Belarusian (be) Тэорыя функцый (музыка)		0
3	Danish (da) Funktionsharmonisk analyse		0
4	German (de) Funktionstheorie		0
5	English (en) Function (music)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Funkciteorio		0
7	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		0
8	Estonian (et) Funktsionaalharmoonia		0
9	Persian (fa) نقش آکورد		0
10	French (fr) Fonction (musique)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Function (music)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Function (music)		230
2	German (de) Funktionstheorie		125
3	Persian (fa) نقش آکورد		57
4	Russian (ru) Теория функций (музыка)		50
5	Swedish (sv) Funktionsanalys (musik)		44
6	Esperanto (eo) Funkciteorio		31
7	Spanish (es) Funciones tonales		29
8	Estonian (et) Funktsionaalharmoonia		28
9	Norwegian (no) Funksjon (musikk)		27
10	Portuguese (pt) Função (música)		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وظيفة (موسيقى)
be	Belarusian Тэорыя функцый (музыка)
da	Danish Funktionsharmonisk analyse
de	German Funktionstheorie
en	English Function (music)
eo	Esperanto Funkciteorio
es	Spanish Funciones tonales
et	Estonian Funktsionaalharmoonia
fa	Persian نقش آکورد
fr	French Fonction (musique)
he	Hebrew הרמוניה טונאלית פונקציונלית
ja	Japanese 機能和声理論
no	Norwegian Funksjon (musikk)
pt	Portuguese Função (música)
ru	Russian Теория функций (музыка)
sr	Serbian Теорија тоналних функција
sv	Swedish Funktionsanalys (musik)
vi	Vietnamese Công năng Diatonic
zh	Chinese 和声功能

Best Rank

English: #148842 05.2010

Global: #126410 05.2020

Best Rank

English: #22460 08.2018

Global: #30337 01.2005

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