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Thanks for the track list Mark. I have now just downloaded from MusicManiac.

I've also found Ruby My Dear on MusicManiac and am downloading at this moment.

I thought I'd give this a try. I had a lot of trouble and finally decided to take liberties with the melody. I hope that doesn't destroy the whole purpose. It still seems to be a good exercise in four-part voicing. I don't see any parallel fifths (but I know they're easy to miss). I intentionally have doubled thirds and sometimes a voice will jump a tritone, but I've played through the voices individually and they don't sound too awful. It's a start and was fun to do.

I apologize for the midi. It sounds like my three-year old great grandson pounding away

Edit: Added more notes to the bass and a suspension in mm7.

midi

SunnyF - very nice!

What you do w/it and where you go w/it just depend on what your goals are.

About style: P5ths aren't bad in of themselves. In common-practice theory they're presented as something to avoid because they detract from the independence of individual lines.

But in the context of All the things you are - where in your version you're not voice leading in common practice style - whether or not you choose to include P5 (or avoid them) is more about taste than necessity. Same with rules about which notes to double or how to treat dissonance(s) or the range in which lines fall or the intervals that receive emphasis.

So we could post an ATTYA that follows rules so to speak .... But because it follows rules doesn't mean it sounds good or is what you want.

All to say you've got nice stuff going on in what you posted ...

Thank you Mark. I've made a couple of changes to it.

Hey Sunny
Welcome to this thread.
Thanks for posting your nice work. It's great that you're learning this voice-leading method of harmonisation/ improv.
The more I listen to modern players, the more I hear them using voice-leading harm. I was just listening today to Jean-Michel Pilc's ballads.

Hi Mark
So I've been inspired to compose again.
It took a lot of effort to come up with Phrase 1 for my new song B Minor Waltz by Bill Evans.
https://app.box.com/s/krfxo6d3w605nawh4pdw

the sheet
https://app.box.com/s/z5j5y2vufljo1tq98vr8

Wow! The good stuff is flowing! For Polyphonist, or anyone wondering where or how to begin, Cus, your example and SunnyFs are gold.

They both sound great at the piano and their both based on great tunes from the jazz tradition: All The Things You are and B minor Waltz.

Cus, you totally captured some nice voice leading. All the lines move beautifully, and the overall texture is great. And of course the B minor Waltz is the B Minor Waltz.

The very last B in the bass ... a lot of pianists would lower it an octave to make a 10th between the bass and tenor notes. But because of reach of course there are a lot of pianists wouldn't do that ....

I'll say it again! These are fabulous examples! And together as a pair ....

Am I missing something? I only see four bars, two of which are a static chord.

You mentioned a few posts back that you were a newbie and needed some guidance to get started w/jazz. More recently SunnyF and Cus posted two great examples. Was trying to help so that's why I suggested those two excellent examples as points from which to begin.

I assume that the B minor waltz linked is not the complete score. Do you have any idea where I can find the complete score?

Google "Bill Evans Bm Waltz PDF." Or transcribe it.

That was nice Custard. I love Bill Evans. You seem to have a very wide appreciation of many styles of jazz. And that's one of the great things about threads like this one: links to jazz I've never heard before.

Thank you Mark and Sunny.

I'm finding that singing the Bach chorale lines for ear-training is really helping me with internalising the alto and tenor voices.

Hey CATS
It's been a pleasure for me to learn Shostakovich's C maj prelude which is a masterpiece in voice-leading.
Thanks for listening to me play it.
https://app.box.com/s/lcbzxtiy63wln0txhk5e

Oh my, that was nice Custard. I'm really impressed by your broad approach to learning a subject like voice leading.

That is a beautiful prelude.

Wow! Cus. That sounds GR8! The way you're playing it. The sound of the piano. It's wonderful

Second try on chorale style:

audio

Cus,
very nicely played. You get such great sound out of that piano.

Cool harmonization of falling in love!

Thank you Sunny, Mark and Knotty for your kind comments.

Sunny
I really like that falling in love tune, I hope you had a lot of fun harmonising it.
It's great the way you take chunks of standards to apply voice-leading.
Nice work.

Sunny, can you post a recording of that played on a piano? ... rather than MIDI? It's really nice ... could you talk about how you put it together?