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Unit 6 - Unit 6 Overview: Harmony and Voice Leading III (Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices)

Unit 6 - 6.1 Embellishing Tones: Identifying Passing Tones and Neighbor Tones

Unit 6 - 6.2 Embellishing Tones: Writing Passing Tones and Neighbor Tones

Unit 6 - 6.4 Embellishing Tones: Identifying and Writing Suspensions; Identifying Retardations

Unit 6 - 6.5 Motive and Motivic Transformation

Unit 6 - 6.7 Harmonic Sequences