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74.98The deeper lesson

We often imagine harmony as:

vertical blocks placed on a timeline.

But real performance is more flexible.

A harmonic change may consist of:

  • one voice anticipating
  • bass moving
  • melody resolving
  • inner tones following
  • full voicing appearing later

So harmony is not merely vertical.

It has internal temporal structure.