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B) in the minor mode
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It is easy to see that each seventh chord is followed by another standing on the fourth above or the fifth below, and that the third of the one prepares the seventh of the other, this seventh resolving in turn onto the third of the following chord.
A complete seventh chord is followed by an incomplete one, and vice versa.
In sequences formed from inversions, six-five chords alternate with second (four-two) chords, and four-three chords with complete seventh chords.