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COHESIVE STUDY:

[bars 18-21: Coltrane Changes] These changes are used here to decorate a basic long II-V-I in Eb major. Each of the chords is spelt out explicitly with either a simple major tetrachord (R-2-3-5), a basic major triad (R-3-5), or in the case of Bb7 w7e see a minor motif (R-2-b3-5) based off the fifth degree (5-6-b7-9). [bars722-25: Altered] Here we see two ways of using the Altered sound, first

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