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42.56Level 27 — 5-note motif

Interesting possibility:

one note per beat:

E♭-G♭-A♭-B♭-D♭.

Now motif length exactly equals bar length.

It locks perfectly to meter.

Repeat.

Then displace the entire motif by one eighth note.

The formerly stable structure becomes syncopated.