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===Lines between voices, reaching over<!--[[Reaching over]] and [[Übergreifen]] redirect directly here.-->=== Passing tones filling the intervals of a chord may be considered forming lines between the voices of this chord. At the same time, if the chord tones themselves are involved in lines from one chord to another (as usually is the case), lines of lower level unfurl between lines of higher level. The most interesting case is when the lines link an inner voice to the upper voice. This may happen not only in ascending (a case usually described as a "line from an inner voice"), but also in descending, if the inner voice has been displaced above the upper line by a [[#Transfer|register transfer]], a case known as "reaching over" (''Übergreifen'', also translated as ''superposition'' or ''overlapping'').<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Drabkin |first=William |title=Reaching over}}. See also Nicolas Meeùs, "[https://trace.tennessee.edu/gamut/vol8/iss1/6/ Übergreifen]," ''Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic'', vol. 8, iss. 1, article 6.</ref> In the example from Schubert's ''[[#SchubertOp4no3|Wanderers Nachtlied]]'' below, the descending line G{{music|b}}–F–E{{music|b}}–D{{music|b}} at the end of the first bar may be read as a reaching over.
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