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85.110Level 78 — coda should answer the arrangement's larger question

If arrangement moved:

dark→bright,

coda should decide:

stay bright?

remember darkness?

return ambiguous?

Likewise if arrangement modulated:

stay new key?

return original?

leave unresolved?

The coda gives the final narrative interpretation.