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26.24What symmetry means musically
A fully diminished chord can be reinterpreted in several ways.
That allows:
- unexpected resolutions
- modulation
- chromatic connecting motion
But don't begin with the mathematical trick.
Begin with:
Which note is resolving by semitone?