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42.56Level 27 — 5-note motif
Interesting possibility:
one note per beat:
E♭-G♭-A♭-B♭-D♭.
Now motif length exactly equals bar length.
It locks perfectly to meter.
Repeat.
Then displace the entire motif by one eighth note.
The formerly stable structure becomes syncopated.