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75.105The mature improvisational question

Not:

“Which cool scale can I use?”

But:

“What contour does this phrase need?”

Sometimes the best modern-sounding phrase uses:

C major.

Nothing more exotic than that.

But its notes are connected in a way the ear did not predict.