Grammar of Music

Courses · Chords beyond the triad · Above the seventh · lesson 5 of 7

One more semitone pointing

The flat ninth, the sharp ninth and the augmented fifth on the dominant, and why each one reinforces the resolution instead of getting in its way.

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