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79.7The information ladder
From least to most:
- melody alone
- melody + pedal
- melody + bass
- melody + bass + guide tone
- melody + shell
- full voicing
- colored voicing
- reharmonized colored voicing
- block/chord-melody texture
You do not always need level 9.