David Huron is Distinguished Professor in the School of Music and in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Ohio State University; he is author of Sweet Anticipation- Music and the Psychology of Expectation (MIT Press).
You do not have to be a musician or composer interested in the
cognition of music to appreciate this book.—Quarterly Review of
Biology
Huron's book is a remarkable achievement, intertwining encyclopedic
knowledge of auditory science with a deep understanding of
voice-leading theory and practice. Fascinating and novel questions,
insights, and perspectives fly like sparks from the pages. It is
hard to imagine a reader who would not be provoked, engaged, or
inspired by the breadth of his endeavor.—Journal of Music
Theory
The greatest strengths of Voice Leading are both its extensiveness
and its comprehensibility... Voice Leading is thus ideally suited
for a broad audience lacking prior knowledge of empirical research
on music perception, a convenient read for musicians, music theory
scholars and teachers, and a general audience interested in music's
psychological background.—Music Theory and Analysis
Huron has written a brilliant and eminently readable synthesis of
decades of empirical work on the cognitive and auditory principles
that underlie polyphonic compositional techniques. This book is an
ideal entry point for musicians interested in the field of music
cognition, as Huron carefully leads the reader through the process
of investigating musical knowledge through scientific
experiments.—Ian Quinn, Professor of Music, Yale University
Everyone, whether beginning college music students, experts in
music theory and auditory science, or interested members of the
general public, could find the book readable and
interesting.—Journal of Music Theory
In this captivating book, David Huron provides a compelling account
of the extraordinary capabilities and intricacies of the human
auditory system, and how they are artfully navigated and exploited
in the practice of multipart music composition. Drawing on over a
half a century of interdisciplinary research on human audition,
Huron demystifies and expands upon the traditional rules of voice
leading, linking them to perceptual and cognitive principles
freighted with rich aesthetic and evolutionary significance. This
book is a revelation.—William Forde Thompson, Centre for Elite
Performance, Expertise, and Training, Macquarie University
the historical commentary on musical composition throughout anchors
the volume within a social context.—Kasey Fowler-Finn, Quarterly
Review of Biology
David Huron, at Ohio State University, has pursued during his
remarkable academic career a musicological study on voice leading
from perceptual and cognitive standpoints, which he has now
synthesized in a lucid book.—Gilberto Bernardes, Portugese Journal
of Musicology
David Huron's book on voice leading is the state-of-the-art account
of the psychological principles that govern the perception of
individual voices in a piece of music.—Fabian Moss, Music Theory
and Analysis
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