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6.1 Embellishing Tones: Identifying Passing Tones and Neighbor Tones

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  1. 6.1Embellishing Tones: Identifying Passing Tones and Neighbor TonesThis lesson
  2. 6.2Embellishing Tones: Writing Passing Tones and Neighbor TonesOpen lesson
  3. 6.3Embellishing Tones: Identifying Anticipations, Escape Tones, Appoggiaturas, and Pedal PointsOpen lesson
  4. 6.4Embellishing Tones: Identifying and Writing Suspensions; Identifying RetardationsOpen lesson
  5. 6.5Motive and Motivic TransformationOpen lesson
  6. 6.6Melodic SequenceOpen lesson
  7. 6.7Harmonic SequenceOpen lesson

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