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Brainlag MusicThe Italian sixth
The simplest augmented sixth: three different notes, the tonic doubled.
Three notes
The Italian sixth has just three different notes: the flattened submediant (bass), the tonic, and the sharpened subdominant. In four parts, double the tonic: never the bass or the sharpened subdominant, which both have places to go.
The rest of this lesson and its 5 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.
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