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60.20Classical warning that no longer applies rigidly

Parallel movement would be heavily restricted in certain classical voice-leading contexts.

Here it may be the desired color.

The question is not:

is parallelism theoretically forbidden?

The question is:

does this texture create the intended sound-world?

Style changes the rules.