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Why beginning and end? Because a large number of themes start with this
same harmony and an equally large number have this group of chords for the
seventh and eighth measures. Thus you have here a great selection, which
will avoid repetition in moments when you don't always know how to fill these
two famous measures.

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Justas there isa formula II - V - I (in C major: 0 - G - C), the formula of the anatole can be called: 1- VI- II - V, since
rhe four basic chords of the anatole are (in C major): C - A7 (or A07) - Om7 - G7.
[he examples proposed have only a remote relationship to the formula, but one must remember that substitution chords can be used, the
)urpose always being the same: to return (after a harmonic promenade) to the start of the next sequence or to the first chord of the theme,
Nhich is generally, in the case of standards, a perfect major (or minor),

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