Second voice
In music, the second voice is usually understood to be a singing voice that accompanies the melody leading (first) voice.
Many people who enjoy singing have the ability to spontaneously add a second voice to a song. The simplest form of this improvisation is the "thirds" - a singing voice that runs mostly a third above or below the melody. Arrey Dommer described this talent as follows: ... one can easily extemporate such a second voice (even if without ligatures and imitations) when singing folk songs, chorales and the like, simple people who have good hearing but have no closer knowledge of the music hear . In order to make the vocals more varied, the third can be combined with the sixth or basso continuo , for example.
Many songs are already set for two or more voices , i. H. the composer or the editor of a songbook has added a sentence or an arrangement to the melody .
In some instrumental works , too , one speaks of a second voice - for example in counterpoint or occasionally in the second violin .
literature
the duet . In: Arrey Dommer : Elements of Music . TO Weigel: Leipzig 1862, pp. 246–249.