An edition of Voice leading
(2016)
Voice leading
the science behind a musical art
by David Brian Huron
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Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers and an accessible account of the cognitive and perceptual foundations for this practice, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The canon ; Rules of voice leading reviewed
Sources and images. Hearing ; The packaging of partials ; Localization cues ; The pleasures of stereo ; The theater of the mind ; Auditory streams ; The pleasures of puzzle solving ; Reprise
Principles of image formation. Harmonicity ; Harmonic fusion ; Toneness ; Reprise
Auditory masking. More about masking ; Auditory irritation ; Consonance ; Reprise
Connecting the dots. Continuity ; Pitch proximity ; Melodic motion : the yodel boundary ; Pitch co-modulation ; Reprise
Preference rules. Preference rules from multiple principles ; Reprise
Types of part-writing. Onset synchrony ; Why does homophony exist? ; Yet more preference rules ; Scene density ; Timbre ; Source location ; Reprise
Embellishing tones. Turn taking ; Reprise
The feeling of leading. Time's arrow ; Going somewhere : voice leading ; Imitative part-writing ; Pause ; Reprise
Chordal-tone doubling ; Reprise
Direct intervals revisited. The muddled middle ; Reprise
Hierarchical streams. The harmonic forest ; Reprise
Scene setting. Scene setting ; Acousmatic scenes ; Designing musical scenes ; Why the Baroque canon? ; Reprise
The cultural connection. The sound of speech ; Language and closure ; A lesson ; Reprise
Ear teasers. Musical scene analysis ; Plural pleasures : accommodating multiple goals ; Reprise
Conclusion. Pleasure ; Setting scenes ; A revised voice-leading canon ; Performance considerations ; Coda.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
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