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11.25Level 3 — classify each chord’s function

For each important chord, say:

  • tonic
  • predominant
  • dominant
  • secondary dominant
  • passing diminished
  • substitute dominant
  • modal/borrowed color

You do not need to label every passing sonority.

Only structural ones.