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80.91Challenge 4 — one chord, two interpretations
Create a four-bar phrase ending on an ambiguous sonority.
Repeat phrase twice.
First continuation makes chord retrospectively function one way.
Second continuation reinterprets it differently.
This is true compositional ambiguity.