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Harmony without Voice Leading? The Challenge of Interpreting Exact Leaping Transpositions
Author(s) -
Goldenberg Yosef
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
music analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-2249
pISSN - 0262-5245
DOI - 10.1111/musa.12072
Subject(s) - chord (peer to peer) , leaps , harmony (music) , harmony (color) , normative , computer science , speech recognition , analogy , psychology , linguistics , epistemology , philosophy , art , literature , visual arts , economics , musical , distributed computing , financial economics
In common‐practice tonal music, normative voice leading is challenged when motives based on arpeggiated chords recur transposed by leaps. Most often, linear readings become possible by means of choosing a different member from each participating chord. The exact details depend on the specific harmonic progression. Some alternative readings are also possible. There is a danger of theoretical bias in such readings, although many of the actual instances are strongly convincing.