Create Cool Chord Progressions with Smooth Voice Leading

Want to use music theory to make cool chord progressions? David Kulma talks about connecting two chords with smooth voice leading by whole steps and half steps in the second episode of Music Corner.

In this second episode of Music Corner, I talk about cool chord progressions you can make with smooth voice leading.

Here is a single page handout with all of the main progressions described (in both color and grayscale): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1bi...

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References mentioned in end credits:
1. Kyle Gann, "Minimal Music, Maximal Impact" on New Music Box
http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/m...

2. Richard Cohn, "Audacious Euphony"
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3. Dmitri Tymoczko, "A Geometry of Music"
http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...

4. My tagline is a short quote from Robert Ashley's television opera, Perfect Lives.
http://www.robertashley.org/

Music Discussed and Analyzed:
1. Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony, first movement opening

2. Laurie Anderson, "O Superman (For Massenet)"

3. The Isley Brothers, "Shout"

4. John Adams, Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 1: "News has a kind of mystery"