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diatonic

chromatic

The two pages in this section discuss slightly longer extracts involving harmonic progression by fifth, first diatonic progressions and then modulatory ones. The difference between these can clearly be seen in the example below.

The two extracts involve the same basic harmonic progression by fifth. In the first, chain of fifths sticks to the notes of the diatonic scale of C major. In the second, however, there are series of apparent perfect cadences which each move another step flatwards on the circle of fifths.

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