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Which note of the Neapolitan sixth to double, and why, with a worked example built up a step at a time.
Double the bass
In four parts one note of the triad is doubled. In the Neapolitan sixth, double the bass, the subdominant. The other two notes both have to fall: the flattened supertonic to the tonic (or the leading note), the flattened submediant to the dominant. Doubled, either would give consecutive octaves.
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