Measures 16–9: The upper voice divides into two parts, the contra-structural E reasserting its highpoint, the C
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resuming its structural role as neighbor to
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, reinforcing the effect of a voice distant from our present reality. The neighbor is supported by a plagal motion, identified here as a lower fifth divider, a term which Schenker abandoned but which may be relevant here.