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61.20When is Lydian dominant useful?

Especially when a dominant chord is:

  • prolonged
  • not behaving as ordinary V
  • moving somewhere by nontraditional root motion
  • functioning as a tritone substitute
  • serving as a static dominant-color environment

This should sound familiar from our functional-versus-color discussions.