
Ohio State University
School of Music
Readings Quiz #5: Voice-Leading
NAME: _____________________________________________
ANSWERS TO THIS QUIZ
After reading the following article,
print and answer this quiz.
Quiz due May 11, 2007.
David Huron
(2001).
Tone and voice: A derivation of the rules of voice-leading from
perceptual principles.
Music Perception,
Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-64.
Answer the following questions as True or False:
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Sensory dissonance is directly determined by interval size.
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The harmonic series is not the primary determinant of chordal spacing.
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A melody performed at a moderate tempo with conjunct motion would
most likely be perceived as a single stream of sound.
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Increased pitch interval is the largest factor that causes a
musical line to be perceived as two streams.
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The autophase technique preserves the content of each individual voice,
but scrambles the original relation between voices.
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The 'axioms' used in this article are derived from empirical
studies in perception.
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