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67.95The arranger's four-voice mindset
When reharmonizing, increasingly think:
Top
melody.
Bottom
bass.
Middle voice 1
guide-tone/inner line.
Middle voice 2
guide-tone/color line.
The chord symbol comes afterward as shorthand for the vertical result.
This is the bridge from chordal thinking back into counterpoint.