Editing Leading tone (section)

=== Voice leading ===
Since the leading-tone triad is a diminished triad, it is usually found in its [[first inversion]]:{{sfn|Goldman|1965|loc=72}}{{sfn|Root|1872|loc=315}} According to Carl Edward Gardner, "The first inversion of the triad is considered, by many, preferable to [[root position]]. The second inversion of the triad is unusual. Some theorists forbid its use."{{sfn|Gardner|1918|loc=48–49}}

In a [[Music theory#Four-part writing|four-part chorale texture]], the third of the leading-tone triad is [[Voicing (music)#Doubling|doubled]] in order to avoid adding emphasis on the [[tritone]] created by the root and the fifth. Unlike a dominant chord where the leading tone can be frustrated and not resolve to the tonic if it is in an inner voice, the leading tone in a leading-tone triad must resolve to the tonic. Commonly, the fifth of the triad resolves down since it is phenomenologically similar to the seventh in a [[dominant seventh chord]]. All in all, the tritone resolves ''inward'' if it is written as a [[diminished fifth]] (m. 1 below) and ''outward'' if it is written as an [[Augmented Fourth|augmented fourth]] (m. 2).

:<score sound="1"> \new Voice \relative c' {
  \clef treble \key c \major \time 4/4 
  <b f'>2 <c e> \bar "||"
  <f b>2 <e c'> \bar "||"
}
</score>