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23.5Pedal harmony is not root-position harmony
This is important.
If bass is C and RH plays F-A♭:
you should not always think:
“Fm chord with wrong bass.”
Sometimes the combined sonority is best understood simply as:
F-minor color over C pedal.
The bass has its own role.