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In music composition
Musical composition

Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
 and arranging, a voicing is the instrumentation
Instrumentation (music)

In music, the word instrumentation is used to refer to the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and to the properties of those instruments individually....
 and vertical spacing and ordering of the pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
 in a chord
Chord (music)

In music and music theory a chord is a set of two or more different note that sound simultaneously. Most often, in European-influenced music, chords are tertian Sonority that can be constructed as stacks of thirds relative to some underlying musical scale....
 (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). Which note is on the bottom determines the inversion
Inversion (music)

In music theory, the word inversion has several meanings. There are inverted chords, inverted melodies, inverted intervals, and inverted voices....
.

Voicing is "the manner in which one distributes, or spaces, notes and chords among the various instruments" and spacing or "simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other".

For example, the following two chords are root-position C major triads voiced differently:



The Psalms chord
Psalms chord

In music, the Psalms chord is, "the famous opening chord ," of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, a, "barking E minor chord triad - characteristically voicing ,", "like no E-minor triad that was ever known before"....
 is noted for its characteristic spacing of an E-minor triad.








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In music composition
Musical composition

Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
 and arranging, a voicing is the instrumentation
Instrumentation (music)

In music, the word instrumentation is used to refer to the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and to the properties of those instruments individually....
 and vertical spacing and ordering of the pitches
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
 in a chord
Chord (music)

In music and music theory a chord is a set of two or more different note that sound simultaneously. Most often, in European-influenced music, chords are tertian Sonority that can be constructed as stacks of thirds relative to some underlying musical scale....
 (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). Which note is on the bottom determines the inversion
Inversion (music)

In music theory, the word inversion has several meanings. There are inverted chords, inverted melodies, inverted intervals, and inverted voices....
.

Voicing is "the manner in which one distributes, or spaces, notes and chords among the various instruments" and spacing or "simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other".

For example, the following two chords are root-position C major triads voiced differently:

C Triad


The Psalms chord
Psalms chord

In music, the Psalms chord is, "the famous opening chord ," of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, a, "barking E minor chord triad - characteristically voicing ,", "like no E-minor triad that was ever known before"....
 is noted for its characteristic spacing of an E-minor triad.

See also

  • Voice leading
    Voice leading

    In musical composition, voice leading is the term used to refer to a decision-making consideration when arranging voices , namely, how each voice should move in advancing from each chord to the next....


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