One might argue that David Huron’s last book, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation, which won the Society for Music Theory’s Wallace Berry Award in 2007, is a tough act to follow.1¹Sweet Anticipation has become an instant classic with a significant multi-disciplinary impact, as indicated by its 2742 citations on Google Scholar (as of February 2021). This leads naturally to high expectations for any subsequent book; and although Voice Leading is intended to be narrower in scope, it is a worthy successor.

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声音领导：音乐艺术背后的科学。通过大卫休伦。剑桥：麻省理工学院出版社，2016 年，vii + 263 页

有人可能会争辩说，大卫·休伦 (David Huron) 的最后一本书《甜蜜的期待：音乐与期望心理学》于 2007 年获得了音乐理论协会的华莱士·贝瑞奖，是一项难以遵循的行为^{。1 1}甜蜜的期待已成为即时经典，正如其在 Google Scholar 上的 2742 次引用（截至 2021 年 2 月）所表明的那样，具有重大的多学科影响。这自然会导致对任何后续书籍抱有很高的期望。尽管“语音领导”的目的是缩小范围，但它是一个有价值的继任者。