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77.104The three compression systems
You now have three especially powerful ways to simplify difficult harmony:
Functional compression
Several chords become one region/destination.
Voice-leading compression
Several chords become one guide-tone path.
Motivic compression
Several chords become one melodic idea adapted through them.
Use all three together.