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Chapter 6 Video 19

7th Chords and Modulation

Commencing with a verbal explanation of how seventh chords are audible in nature as components of the Harmonic Series, the introduction of the gesture conveying the inclusion of the sharpened 4th (Fi) permits modulation via the major of chord II. Modulation on these lines replaces the Tonic with the Dominant (see Video 55 for the use of dominant 7th chords in achieving this).  

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