Quotes About Voice leading

I Want To Hold Your Hand' 'I Saw Her Standing There' Voice leading in the Plagal cadence Here is a summary of the action in a IV–I change (in the key of C), highlighting the important 'inner' voice leading.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

The most obvious effect of inverting a chord is to change its bass note, and one result of voice leading through the use of inversions is the creation of melodic bass lines that connect from chord to chord by steps rather than by the wider leaps common when root position voicings alone are used.