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26.24What symmetry means musically

A fully diminished chord can be reinterpreted in several ways.

That allows:

  • unexpected resolutions
  • modulation
  • chromatic connecting motion

But don't begin with the mathematical trick.

Begin with:

Which note is resolving by semitone?