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97.165The deeper theory lesson

Theory should progressively become:

sound compression.

When you see:

V7♭9,

you should not need to consciously calculate all intervals every time.

The symbol should call up:

a family of sounds and resolutions.

Theory is useful because it lets many individual notes become one audible chunk.