Key To Mr.

Goodchords Voice Leading Charts

THE FIRST CHORD IN THE PROGRESSION IDENTIFIED BY THE CHORD SYMBOL ABOVE IT. THE CHORDS ARE BUILT VERTICALLY (IN THIS
CASE LOWEST NOTE IN THE STRUCTURE IS C). THE PROGRESSION MOVES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. THE VOICES MOVE UP OR DOWN IN
THE DIRECTION OF THE ARROWS OR REMAIN THE SAME FROM CHORD TO CHORD AS SHOWN BY THE COMMON TONE DASHES.

Triad

SHOWS THE
INTERVAL
MOTION
BETWEEN
VOICES
REGARDLESS
OF THEIR
PLACEMENT
WITHIN THE
CHORD

Chord Family: B.N. II

Voicing Type: Drop 2
Intervallic
Voice-Leading

2nd
3rd
c.t.
2nd

Scale: C major

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REPEAT SIGNS
WORK THE SAME
WAY THEY DO IN
STANDARD
MUSIC NOTATION:
REPEAT WHAT IS
BETWEEN THEM.

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Functional
Voice-Leading

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up

down

DEPICTS THE
MOTION
BETWEEN
FUNCTIONS
(CHORD
TONES)
REGARDLESS
OF THEIR
PLACEMENT
WITHIN THE
CHORD

Cycle: 4

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AN ALTERNATE
VIEW OF THE
FUNCTIONAL
VOICE LEADING

c.t.

down

THE
BRACKETED
NOTES ARE
THE MELODIC
STRAND THAT,
WHEN
REPLICATED,
CREATE THE
LINE FOR THE
VOICE
LEADING.
[CYCLES 4 & 5
HAVE TWO
M.S.R.P.s ]

M.S.R.P.
MELODIC
STRAND
REPLICATION
PROCEDURE:
A NAME FOR
THE PROCESS
FROM WHICH
THE MELODIC
SOURCE
MATERIAL FOR
THE VOICE
LEADING IS
DERIVED

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THIS NUMBER
SHOWS THE
NOTE
FUNCTION
WITHIN THE
CHORD AND
WHERE THAT
VOICE
BEGINS ITS
VOICE
LEADING
WITHIN THE
M.S.R.P.

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