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Chapter 6 Video 20

The ‘tonicising’ sign

Introducing the ‘tonicising sign’, this builds on Video 19 in conveying the stages through which a progression passes in modulating to the Dominant by replacing ‘old’ chord I through moving ‘old’ chord V into the tonic position. Then, adding a dominant 7th to this, and tonicizing its implication, the old tonic returns.

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