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Solution to Exercise 5.5.5 (p. 190)
The seventh degree of the scale must be raised by one half step to make the v chord major. If the seventh
scale note is raised, the III chord becomes augmented, and and the vii chord becomes a diminished chord
(based on the sharp vii rather than the vii). The augmented III chord would not be particularly useful in
the key, but, as mentioned above (p. 187), a diminished seventh chord based on the leading tone (here, the
sharp vii) is sometimes used in cadences (Section 5.6).
Figure 5.55
Solution to Exercise 5.6.1 (p. 194)
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