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Diatonic Seventh Chord Circle of Fifths
Gottry Music Theory
General Considerations - Chain of diatonic seventh chords based on a descending fifth sequence - Root position chords: * best voice leading results in alternating complete and incomplete (no 5th) seventh chords - Chords in inversion: * alternating between root position and 2nd inversion * alternating between 1st inversion and 3rd inversion - Voice-leading is typical of harmonic sequences * non-traditional resolution of some scale degrees and intervals * sequence segment of two chords repeated down a step * may appear as complete circle of fifths or partial sequence - For all upper voices, notes remain as common tones or descend by step until the final V7 - I resolution.