History & The Arts
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
...based on the shape of three notes rising up a scale, and harmonised in tenths [play bb. 1–2, then bb. 1–2 reduction]. Now, in bar three, the B natural and C sharp are clearly chromatic passing notes [play b. 3]. And in bar four, the third beat is a 6/4 chord, which is nearly always a set of neighbour-notes to the following chord, making a cadence [play b. 4]. So if we write out just the harmony notes of......