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19.61Planing
Planing means moving a chord shape in parallel without traditional functional relationships.
Example:
D major → E major → F♯ major
over a pedal.
This is more coloristic than functional.
Do not analyze every step as V-of-something.
Sometimes it is simply parallel sonority.