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27.44Level 17 — functional → modal architecture

Reverse.

Start:

Dm7♭5 → G7 → Cm.

Then stay on Cm while B natural disappears back to B♭.

The tonic resolution opens into a modal vamp.

Now “home” becomes a landscape rather than endpoint.