Voice Leading - Principles

Principles

The four basic voice leading principles in first species according to Fux:

  1. From one perfect consonance (P1, P5, P8) to another proceed in contrary or oblique motion.
  2. From a perfect consonance to an imperfect consonance (M3, m3, M6, m6, M10, m10) proceed by similar, contrary, or oblique motion.
  3. From an imperfect consonance to a perfect consonance proceed in contrary, or oblique motion.
  4. From one imperfect consonance to another proceed in contrary, parallel, similar, or oblique motion.

Read more about this topic:  Voice Leading

Famous quotes containing the word principles:

    It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick The Great (1712–1786)

    ...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women’s rights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.
    Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

    The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
    Roy Hattersley (b. 1932)