Voicing (music)

In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts:

How a musician or group distributes, or spaces, notes and chords on one or more instruments
The simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other;^[5] this relates to the concepts of spacing and doubling

It includes the instrumentation and vertical spacing and ordering of the musical notes in a chord: which notes are on the top or in the middle, which ones are doubled, which octave each is in, and which instruments or voices perform each note.

^ Benward & Saker (2003), p. 269.
^ Benward & Saker (2003), p. 274.
^ Benward & Saker (2003), p. 276.
^ ^a ^b Benward & Saker (2009), p. 74.
^ Corozine, Vince (2002). Arranging Music for the Real World: Classical and Commercial Aspects. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay. p. 7. ISBN 0-7866-4961-5. OCLC 50470629.

[FOOTNOTEBenwardSaker2003269-1] Benward & Saker (2003), p. 269.

[FOOTNOTEBenwardSaker2003274-2] Benward & Saker (2003), p. 274.

[FOOTNOTEBenwardSaker2003276-3] Benward & Saker (2003), p. 276.

[FOOTNOTEBenwardSaker200974-4] Benward & Saker (2009), p. 74.

[5] Corozine, Vince (2002). Arranging Music for the Real World: Classical and Commercial Aspects. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay. p. 7. ISBN 0-7866-4961-5. OCLC 50470629.

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