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82.70Level 36 — tritone symmetry
The tritone divides octave exactly in half.
C ↔ F♯.
Six semitones each way.
This is 2-fold symmetry.
Dominant 7th contains a tritone:
B-F in G7.
Tritone substitution exploits this symmetry.