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Hello everyone Just a simple question about basic Schenekerian analysis, because I need something clarified. The fundamental structure; the two voices that are left when you reduce any texture to its most simple possible form, do these have to be the outside voices i.e Bass and Soprano? I'm reading a few books on the theory, and they start with a simple two voice structure and then elabrorate it into a more comlex multi voices texture to show how it works, but the two voices that were started with always end up being the two outside voices of the new texture (though elaborated on with passing and embelishing motions etc...). Is it possible for the upper of the two voices, the most reduced form of a texture, to not represent the soprano, so that the alto for example is responsible for the basic structure? Thanks