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Voicing (music)

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

For the adjustment of an organ pipe for sound quality, see Voicing (pipe organ).

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.

Blind octave

Consecutive fifths

Open chord

Partial voicing

Benward, Bruce; Saker, Marilyn Nadine (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Volume I (7th ed.).  978-0-07-294262-0.

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Benward, Bruce; Saker, Marilyn Nadine (2009). Music: In Theory and Practice, Volume II (8th ed.).  978-0-07-310188-0.

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Sources

Drop 3 Chord Voicings and Examples for Jazz Guitar