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107.165Conceptual application to “Mack the Knife”
Using your legal melody/chart:
do not begin by adding more block harmony.
Instead identify:
one guide-tone line per chorus.
Later chorus:
turn one guide line into response/countermelody.
Final chorus:
perhaps block texture absorbs that line into full voicing.
The same inner material can participate in escalation.