Consonance and dissonance

texture of the work is polyphonic due to the simultaneous melodies. The tempo of the work ranges from moderato to vivace, depending on the situation occurring during the work. Throughout the piece, consonance and dissonance are both used. Dissonance is present to help build up suspense, while consonance is used to settle the dispute caused by the suspense. When it comes to melodic range, both high and low are present within the work. This variation is shown greatly between the characters. For…

Many neuroscientists hold that humans reconstruct their memories and diverge from authenticity through continuous recollection (Radiolab, 2010). Moreover, the brain’s preference for consonance causes dissonance to agitate nerves (Radiolab, 2010). To illustrate, before the first performance of the Rite of Spring, Stravinsky described it as a “concert about springtime”, when in reality, it was about “radical change and ritual murder” (Radiolab, 2010). The audience’s perception was contradicted…

Claude Debussy’s, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, helped push the transformation of music in the 20th century. Tired of the tender melodies and the emotional tone of the romantic era,these composers experimented with tone, rhythm, and melody eventually defining news styles of music. The purpose of this paper to identify the similarities and the differences between Debussy’s La Mer, Stravinsky’s Right of Spring, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Claude Debussy’s La Mer is an orchestral…

As for melodies, they were no longer tied to traditional chords, mayor or minor keys or a tonal center. One characteristic that was abandoned in the twentieth century was the traditional distinction between consonance and dissonance. The new use of chord structures and alternatives to the traditional tonal system were highly explored. One of the most striking features of this time was rhythm, since it was used to generate power, drive and excitement in music pieces.…

considered as one of the popular theory in Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. Based on the name of the theory itself, cognitive refers to the mind and dissonance means inconsistency or conflict, which basically means that the theory talks about the mind or thinking being inconsistent or in conflict. To define clearly, cognitive dissonance is the psychological conflict from holding two or more incompatible beliefs simultaneously. This cognitive theory views individuals as more of a…

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Artist-Faculty Recital Series at the Fairchild Theatre on MSU 's Campus. The concert featured a multitude of pieces ranging from the Baroque and Classical music periods to modern day compositions. Several of the pieces were played in a piano-trombone basso continuo and the last piece was played by a trombone choir with two featured soloists. Going into the concert I did not know what to expect. I had listened to classical music in my MUS…

lot of gray lines. Also repetition consists of rhythm, harmony, and variation. White Light has rhythm because of the repetition of lines. It has harmony because of the mixture of all colors and also distinguishing other colors which also creates dissonance. I think that it also has variation because all the lines go in different directions and not all lines are the same. Second, Pollock’s work piece seems to unify all together. It seems to be closed compositions instead of a open composition…

improvisation as a major concept is free jazz. Free jazz was really popular during the 1960s-1970s. One free jazz artist was Cecil Taylor. In Taylor’s song Lena, the piece starts out sounding very in sync, but as it progresses it turns into more dissonance. It is very hard to follow…

The piece seems to be mainly monophonic as it is Cline singing being backgrounded with an acoustic guitar, basic drums, a piano steel guitar, electric guitar, and acoustic bass (Walkin' After Midnight, n.d.). They all preformed together with a consonance sound. “Walkin’ After Midnight” is written in an ABCACA form as the chorus is sung before the verse and the bridge is sung after the verse (Patsy Cline Lyrics,…

Each piece effectively exemplified the characteristics of each of those periods. The Quartet by Mozart showed the use of gradual dynamic changes, changes in mood, and unified forms. We are then presented nearly the exact opposite with extreme dissonance and unpredictable qualities of the modern era in Ainsi la nuit by Dutilleux. Finally, we see longer, warm melodies with more expression and tone color in the romantic Quartet by Dvořák. This was a diverse and interesting…