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Updated: June 14, 2025

"There are several dissonances in this part," he said, "and they ought to be somewhat accented suspensions I might call them. In Bach and Handel's time, the rules of composition were very strict no suspensions were allowed; so they were indicated where it was not permitted to write them." Chopin's étude in sixths came up for analysis.

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