In their music, the left hand was largely devoted to chords, while the right played the melody.
Voice leading is a description of the horizontal movement of the music, as opposed to chords which are considered the vertical.
The movement gradually progresses from cluster-like elements to full chords.
This is particularly true of his highly analytic approach to chords.
Our examples have been confined to simple homophonic chords in which all the notes sound together.
The concept of added tones is further convenient in that all notes may be related to familiar chords.
The same principle would also apply to chords containing a minor third:
Repercussion is also used throughout the fugue, sometimes applied to full chords in both hands.
Another method to playing chords is to play with four mallets, two per hand.
This arrangement is identical in structure to the original cue, though a number of changes were made to the melody and chords.
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