Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
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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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