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47.53Level 26 — syncopated melodic target

Suppose C is tonic.

Instead of landing C on beat 1:

land on:

4&

and sustain through beat 1.

Harmonically resolved.

Rhythmically anticipated.

This separates:

pitch resolution

from:

metric resolution.