Grade 8 Music Theory, Unit 2, Lesson 3 of 4
Brainlag Music

Resolving it

Music theory, Diminished sevenths in major keys, 10 minutes

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The leading note rises, the borrowed 7th falls a semitone.

Two semitones

B rises to C; A flat falls to G

VII°7 goes to I (or Ib): the leading note rises to the tonic, and the borrowed 7th falls a semitone to the dominant.

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