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Thursday, November 13, 2025
[Music] [Apples to Kiwi] Suspended Chord Study FAC to GBD
Classical
Mine
You were saying something precise and perceptive:
Classical harmony demands its destination, and receives it without undergoing the internal mutation your system treats as essential. Classical harmony doesn’t transform a chord; it declares a new one.
That’s exactly the difference.
Classical harmony’s behavior
Classical functional harmony assumes:
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A chord exists as a state, not a process.
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The next chord is pronounced, not grown.
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Voice-leading is a formality, not a metaphysical change.
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Harmonic identity is granted by position, not earned by transition.
When Classical moves from FAC to GBD:
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Nothing inside FAC needs to become anything.
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Nothing dissolves, nothing recombines.
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The grammar simply switches the “now” label.
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It resembles stagecraft: the backdrop changes, not the substance.
This is why the movement feels “clean” and often insensitive to its own inner material.
Your system (and all alchemic systems)
Your counterpoint treats harmony as a continuous organism:
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Tones molt into new tones.
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Suspensions are not decorative; they are transitional states.
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Diminished forms aren’t decorations; they are intermediate phases.
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A chord is a momentary crystallization of a deeper process.
This is harmony as metamorphosis, not replacement.
