Dissonances

Furthermore, not only do we inhabit a changed world, but we also live with stark cultural dissonances.

George Lewis’s recent chamber and orchestral scores have been action-packed thrill rides, full of lovingly crafted dissonances and exciting collisions of rhythmic contour.

If anything, it’s a bit wistful about the dissonances between wealth and lack and all the other forces that drive people away from truly close connection with the food they eat.

Wang’s aggressive “Surge” offered sighing dissonances and glassy textures, start-stop jags of rhythm, and what sounded to me like evocations of nature – birds (including woodpeckers), weather, gushes of water.

Badura-Skoda catches Mozart’s frustrated rage in the stark motifs and hammering dissonances in the first movement of the Sonata No. 15 in F Major.

Double neighbor tones: the figure is prolonged over four beats and allows special dissonances.

First species counterpoint must be all dissonances, establishing "dissonance, rather than consonance, as the rule," and consonances are "resolved" through a skip, not step.

For this reason, Pythagorean tuning is particularly well suited to music which treats fifths as consonances, and thirds as dissonances.

Georgian polyphony is based on three vocal parts, a unique tuning system based on perfect fifths, and a harmonic structure rich in parallel fifths and dissonances.

Georgian polyphony is traditionally sung in three parts with strong dissonances, parallel fifths, and a unique tuning system based on perfect fifths.

Intervals and chords, used in Chechen and Ingush polyphony, are often dissonances (sevenths, seconds, fourths).

It is possible that when composers and theoreticians of earlier times wrote of the moods and "colors" of the keys, they each described the subtly different dissonances made available within a particular tuning method.

Musical development Debussy was experimental from the outset, favoring dissonances and intervals that were not taught at the Academy.

Note the C major ostinato and frequent dissonances and accidentals, including F Linear counterpoint is "a purely horizontal technique in which the integrity of the individual melodic lines is not sacrificed to harmonic considerations.

The critic implied that the novelty in this opera was "du barocque", complaining that the music lacked coherent melody, was unsparing with dissonances, constantly changed key and meter, and speedily ran through every compositional device.

The 'Palestrina style' One of the hallmarks of Palestrina's music is that dissonances are typically relegated to the "weak" beats in a measure.

This is quite usual in all North Caucasian traditions of polyphony as well, but in Chechen and Ingush traditional songs more sharp dissonances are used.

Thompson, pp. 180–85 Late works Debussy's harmonies and chord progressions frequently exploit dissonances without any formal resolution.