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Consonance and dissonance (C/D) has been central to music theory since ancient Greece. It refers to both vertical and horizontal relationships in the musical score. On longer time scales, it refers to local and global relationships.
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This chapter examines a wide range of approaches to consonance/dissonance, focusing on four debates: the age-old sensus/ratio discussion, contrapuntal treatises, non-Western evidence from cognitive science, and evolutionary arguments.
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 method- ology for quantifying metric dissonance.
Resolving Dissonances. In most music a dissonance will resolve; it will be followed by a consonant chord that it naturally leads to, for example a G seventh chord resolves to a C major chord, and a D suspended fourth resolves to a D major chord. A series of unresolved dissonances, on the other hand, can produce a sense of unresolved tension.
Feb 13, 2024 · Moving from a dissonance to the consonance that is expected to follow it is called resolution, or resolving the dissonance. The pattern of tension and release created by resolved dissonances is part of what makes a piece of music exciting and interesting.
Psychoacoustics and Sensory Dissonance. The physical realization of a single note played on a pitched musical instrument consists of a set of simultaneous sinusoidal waves of air pressure (i.e., a set of pure tones) that are superimposed to yield a single complex tone.
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Rhythmic Dissonance is an underrated and understudied compositional device. While some theorists have attempted to codify and explain this phenomenon, the number of these individuals has been few, as have the number of explanations and explorations in this area.
