Consonance and dissonance

sixths, creating a sweet sound. Renaissance music was very consonant and there was very little dissonance. The rhythm was regular and the pulse was not emphasized. Josquin des Prez’s “Ave Maria” is a representative piece of the Renaissance. It has imitative polyphony and homophony, there are separate vocal parts to the piece which interact with each other sweetly. The sweet harmonies are an example of consonance used in Renaissance music. The overall mood…

Like Pannenberg’s hypothetic consonanitst model, Russell’s “Creative Mutual Interaction” model looks at the dialogue both in terms of “consonance” and “dissonance” in pursuit of “coherence” between natural sciences and theology. In such a mutual dialogue, theology should not merely serve as science’s religious interpreter as is normally done in so-called “two-worlds” perspectives. Rather, “theology can indeed offer creative suggestions in the form of questions, topics, or conceptions of nature…

History of Western Music Final Essay The History of Western Music, the idea of western music’s history in its entirety is an immensely broad subject that has captured the attention of many. Music has changed a lot in the past couple millennia and I will argue that that often the changes that occur, are a response to previous ideas and musical norms. Also, taking note that the changes come with the culture at the time and the culture from the previous time. So let us briskly walk from the…

Introduction According to the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, creation is ontologically dependent on its Creator. This means that “God, in creating the universe, was not constrained by the limitations of the already existing stuff from which the universe was to be fashioned, but was free to bring into existence a universe in which the divine will was recognizably embodied and enacted” In these two tenets, it is affirmed that God was not forced by any inner or outer necessities to…

music for centuries. New instruments and techniques are constantly being developed, but many of these techniques fail to secure a lasting foothold and gain traction. Many techniques of the twentieth and twenty-first century incorporate additional dissonances to compose chord resolutions, chord successions, and chord progressions that are atypical of classical music before 1910. Composers continue to push the field of music composition forward with new sounds and music to keep audiences…

In the Cognitive Dissonance Experiment conducted by Leon Festinger, the researchers were interested in how we rationalize to ourselves about why we think and behave certain ways. Participants were students enrolled in a certain course at Stanford University. Based off of this factor and the time period, we can assume that they were mostly of similar background (white and middle class). Once in the lab, they were told that the experiment was about how expectations affect the experience of…

the first systematic studies of musical sound. Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician, is credited with discovering the mathematical ratios of the fundamental pitch intervals; the octave, fourth, and fifth were considered consonances, or “perfect”, and all others were dissonances, or imperfect. Critical to an understanding of Greek music is the doctrine of ethos. The Greeks believed that certain scales, or as they were called, modes, possessed moral and ethical values in terms…

As I grew up, music was there for me at ever juncture of my life’s journey. When I was an anxious kid moving to a new area in elementary school, it offered me a release from stress and a way to bond with other students. Even without any shared tangible experiences with the other kids, I could relate to them through singing tunes of the popular music of the time. I listened to about 60 songs on my first-generation iPod Nano when I was alone in my room after school, and the consonant, uptempo…

using traditional American folk tunes and an impressively diverse range of high and low pitches to convey a sense of vastness, representing the immense American frontier. The movement’s beginning uses consonance as all the notes seem to mesh well with each other, but the middle shows some dissonance, as the notes seem harshly unrelated to each other. The genre of the overall piece, Rodeo, is a ballet, and it is choreographed with five movements. “Hoedown” begins with a recurring theme of the…

The musical composition in the cinema Entr'acte Symphonique de "Relache" (1924) and song Socrates (1919) both produced by Eric Satie illustrates the distinct musical approaches that he used in his compositions. Interestingly, I have noticed Satie used different musical elements to distinguish different sections both the cinema and the musical composition. My analysis of his approaches in these two pieces of work is critical in understanding the sensibilities of the works and understanding of…