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77.19Level 8 — identify harmonic landmarks

Take an 8-bar progression.

Do not memorize every chord equally.

Mark:

  • tonic arrival
  • dominant arrival
  • modulation
  • phrase cadence
  • unusual borrowed chord

These are landmarks.

Other chords may be connectors.