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Voice Crossing


Elie

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With an orchestra voice-leading becomes more complicated because you suddenly deal with 20-odd different instruments, all with a different tone and dynamic curve rather than four voices all with a (nearly) homogenous timbre. But as long as the orchestrational effect is coherant and the most important lines are the clearest there is no prohibition on crossing of voices. Voice-crossing in vocal music is generally avoided for practical reasons - it is more difficult to sing when the position in the texture suddenly changes.

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