Music and the Making of Modern Science

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Box 3.1
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He then cadences on the Aeolian A, a fifth above Dorian D, though he only includes its
fundamental (A) and fifth (E), not the third (F) ( ♪ sound example 3.3b):

As he gradually introduces the missing F, he then leads it down a semitone to E and uses
that as the third degree of C (Ionian), on which he then cadences ( ♪ sound example 3.3c):
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