Voice leading
Subtitle: the science behind a musical art
By: David Huron
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780262034852
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Psychological aspects; Music; Musical perception; Harmony
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The canon ; Rules of voice leading reviewed; title: 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; title: Principles of image formation. Harmonicity ; Harmonic fusion ; Toneness ; Reprise; title: Auditory masking. More about masking ; Auditory irritation ; Consonance ; Reprise; title: Connecting the dots. Continuity ; Pitch proximity ; Melodic motion : the yodel boundary ; Pitch co-modulation ; Reprise; title: Preference rules. Preference rules from multiple principles ; Reprise; title: Types of part-writing. Onset synchrony ; Why does homophony exist? ; Yet more preference rules ; Scene density ; Timbre ; Source location ; Reprise; title: Embellishing tones. Turn taking ; Reprise; title: The feeling of leading. Time's arrow ; Going somewhere : voice leading ; Imitative part-writing ; Pause ; Reprise; title: Chordal-tone doubling ; Reprise; title: Direct intervals revisited. The muddled middle ; Reprise; title: Hierarchical streams. The harmonic forest ; Reprise; title: Scene setting. Scene setting ; Acousmatic scenes ; Designing musical scenes ; Why the Baroque canon? ; Reprise; title: The cultural connection. The sound of speech ; Language and closure ; A lesson ; Reprise; title: Ear teasers. Musical scene analysis ; Plural pleasures : accommodating multiple goals ; Reprise; title: Conclusion. Pleasure ; Setting scenes ; A revised voice-leading canon ; Performance considerations ; Coda.