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Perfect Plagal

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This Bb has an F in it. It’s this one. Can you hear it?

That means this note and this one are intrinsically connected. This is the plagal cadence, and it moves from 1 to 4. But the question of tension and resolution is all a matter of context, because if this is 1 and this is 4, this could also be 1, and that could be 5.

So the plagal cadence also becomes the perfect cadence. 1 to 5 to 1. And so as always, what we call home is just a matter of context.

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