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19.61Planing

Planing means moving a chord shape in parallel without traditional functional relationships.

Example:

D major → E major → F♯ major

over a pedal.

This is more coloristic than functional.

Do not analyze every step as V-of-something.

Sometimes it is simply parallel sonority.