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Readings Quiz #5: Voice-Leading


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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:

  1. Sensory dissonance is directly determined by interval size.

  2. The harmonic series is not the primary determinant of chordal spacing.

  3. A melody performed at a moderate tempo with conjunct motion would most likely be perceived as a single stream of sound.

  4. Increased pitch interval is the largest factor that causes a musical line to be perceived as two streams.

  5. The autophase technique preserves the content of each individual voice, but scrambles the original relation between voices.

  6. The 'axioms' used in this article are derived from empirical studies in perception.


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