Part (music)

The term voice (Latin vox, Italian voce, Greek φωνη ) in the musical music theory refers to a contiguous sequence of tones. If they move according to the laws of the vocal line, several such voices can sound together harmonically. Therefore, a distinction is monophonic and polyphonic music (see polyphony ) or vocals and accompanying voices.

If more than two voices sound together, this usually requires a written determination ( notation). Here is a sequence of musical notes abstracted from the individual timbre and individual performance context: One thinks no concrete sounding voice, but rather a song or game rule statement that can be more or less accurately performed and interpreted differently. As a vocal book is referred to, in which a single voice is recorded a polyphonic composition. It contains, for example, games, sound sequences in a polyphonic composition that is played or sung by instruments or vocal parts as soloists or more in an orchestra or choir.

In a broader sense can be meant, which are produced by a single musician or a vocal group with the expression of voice sound events. Because of this understanding one voice is strongly tied to their way of writing, is often thought to "voice" the sheet music performed in the hand of the singer or instrumentalist ( which is also called Part orchestra or voice ). While the conductor of an orchestra from the score reads, in which all voices are listed among themselves, the musicians only need their own voice. Here the term is not meant in the unanimous sense: The Piano is a piano concerto usually more consistent, but is run by a single musician.

As evidence of the musical context some votes are a numbering or a piano reduction of the overall sound attached, especially when it comes to solo voices or voices.

History

The German word voice in the musical context, the translation of the Latin vox and originally referred to the individual sound. In the early polyphony a recorded sequence of notes is a "voice". So sacred and secular tunes were made by rhythmic changes or added circuit formulas to vote, in order to process more consistent about as cantus firmus. The basic voice called Cantus, the dissenting vote Organum. The to date scholarly basis of polyphony, four-part set of vocal registers in the choir, was formed in 15-16. Century out.

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