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105.196The mature harmonic-composition question
Not:
“What interesting chord can go here?”
But:
“What does the melody currently imply, what does the bass need to do, what expectation has already been created, and what harmonic event will make the next destination feel simultaneously surprising enough to matter and inevitable enough to belong?”
That is the heart of harmonic composition.