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18.92Fixed-do and movable function

Because you use fixed-do notation naturally, keep both layers:

A♭ is always the physical/named pitch A♭ / ля-бемоль.

But when A♭ is tonic:

functionally it is 1.

That dual awareness is exactly what we want:

fixed pitch identity + movable harmonic function.