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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.