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However, it must be pointed out that there are caveats to this rule in regards to wolf fifths and wolf fourths, something which has been hinted at already and will be addressed in further detail below.


'''Primary Adpositive Purity''' - This rule is that for every chord root located one step away from either the Tonic, Dominant or Serviant along the Circle of Fifths, there is a demand for the fifth of the chord in question to be within 3.5 cents of a just 3/2.  This means that the Tonic, Dominant, Serviant, Supertonic and Subtonic chords all demand a perfect fifth as the fifth of the chord, whether you are building the Tonality upwards or downwards.  One of the obvious applications of this is that chords built with wolf fifths must have roots located three or more steps away from the Tonic along the Circle of Fifths, and that when two notes within a given Diatonic system are separated by a wolf fifth, they both must likewise be located three or more steps away from the Tonic along the Circle of Fifths.
'''Primary Adpositive Purity''' - This rule is that for every chord root located one step away from either the Tonic, Dominant or Serviant along the Circle of Fifths, there is a demand for the fifth of the chord in question to be within 3.5 cents of a just 3/2.  This means that the Tonic, Dominant, Serviant, Supertonic and Subtonic chords all demand a perfect fifth as the fifth of the chord, whether you are building the Tonality upwards or downwards.  One of the obvious applications of this is that chords built with wolf fifths must have roots located three or more steps away from the Tonic along the Circle of Fifths, and that when two notes within a given Diatonic system are separated by a wolf fifth, they both must likewise be located three or more steps away from the Tonic along the Circle of Fifths.