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- Metrical dissonance refers to the coexistence of two or more unaligned metrical layers in a single passage of music. Metrical dissonance can be divided into two types: Displacement dissonance, in which two or more layers with the same meter (or grouping structure) are displaced against each other
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“Metrical dissonance” refers to the presence of two or more different ways of hearing the music’s metrical structure. This is usually divided into two types: Displacement dissonance sees two forms of the same meter displaced against each other, so with the same period and structure but a different phase.
Oct 4, 2000 · A crucial part of musical expression is the succession of metrical states, in which “the resulting waves of tension and relaxation cannot fail to bear us as listeners with them, in fact to move us” (114). Krebs speaks of metrical progressions and the processes that can order them, and depicts these in metrical maps.
Jan 7, 2019 · This article develops existing models of metric dissonance, most notably that of Harald Krebs, by formalizing them through the calculus of finite differences, thereby introducing a methodology for quantifying metric dissonance.
- Steven Reale
- 2019
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Ex. 3a. Transcription by the author, in consultation with Kerry Livgren, “Carry On Wayward Son” in The Best of Kansas, Guitar Recorded Versions, transcribed by Jesse Gress and Bill LaFleur (Hal Leonard, 1999). Ex. 3b. Transcription adapted from Anthony Iommi, John Osbourne, William Ward and Terence Butler, “Paranoid” in Black Sabbath: Paranoid, Gui...
* Thanks to Yonatan Malin and the anonymous readers for helpful comments on this article. Return to text 1. See, for example, Eggertson 2003, 3; Graham 2008, 35; and Pressing 2002, 291. Return to text 2. The concept of metric dissonance as analogous to pitch dissonance has been explored in Yeston 1976, Lewin 1981 and 1987, Lester 1986, Kaminsky 198...
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Dec 4, 2022 · Metrical dissonance is a situation where two pulse layers are in conflict: “A displacement dissonance is one in which two conflicting (non-aligned) pulse layers are moving at the same speed. . . A grouping dissonance is one in which two conflicting pulse layers are moving at different speeds” (54).
metric dissonance draw primarily from a conception of dissonance based on the relative complexities of frequency ratios while downplaying the important syntactical aspect that dissonance plays in tonal music. This article develops existing models of metric dissonance, most notably that of Harald
