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# Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Introduction: Mozart's piano sonatas
  - 1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas
  - 1.2 Analysing harmony
  - 1.3 The origins of voice-leading analysis
  - 1.4 Some introductory listening
- 2 What is voice leading?
  - 2.1 Two examples
  - 2.2 Listening for lines within the harmony
- 3 The elements of voice-leading analysis
  - 3.1 Introduction to the elements of voice-leading analysis
  - 3.2 Simple reductive processes
  - 3.3 Categories of dissonance in tonal music
    - 3.3.1 Passing notes
    - 3.3.2 Neighbour notes
    - 3.3.3 Suspensions
  - 3.4 The concept of prolongation
    - 3.4.1 Arpeggiation
  - 3.5 Making a foreground reduction
  - 3.6 A second reduction: analytical levels
  - 3.7 Analytical notation
- 4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements

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