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63.7This immediately connects to Workshop 60

Over a C pedal:

D minor triad:

D-F-A

gave us:

9,11,13.

We already used it as an upper structure.

Now we're using the same object melodically.

So:

upper-structure harmony and triad-pair improvisation are two versions of the same idea.