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125.6Capstone Rule 3
Choose one deliberate limitation.
Examples:
- no diminished passing chords
- maximum three voices for first half
- no V7 until climax
- melody limited to one octave until B
- only one altered dominant
- no final melody tonic
A limitation creates:
shape.