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36.2Now refuse to resolve

Play:

G7♭9

and stay there.

One bar.

Four bars.

Eight bars.

Do not go to Cm.

At first your ear says:

“Surely C is coming.”

After a while something interesting happens.

The chord begins to acquire its own identity.

It becomes a sound-world.