Consonance and dissonance

given music from the Western cultures. What was found was three basic emotions were able to be identified regardless if the music was unfamiliar or from a different culture: happy, sad, and scared/fearful. This indicates that the consonance and permanent sensory dissonance is universally recognized in the perceived pleasantness of…

Ferlinghetti’s The World is a Beautiful Place is a literary work with a sense of great sarcasm and satire. While the title suggests that the author holds a rather optimistic and positive view about society and its underlying allure, the actual poem is about the disguised charms of the world through the lens of cynicism. A quick glance at this poem is enough for readers to notice the author’s unique structural choice, and combined with a distinctive poetic pattern, alongside the use of…

passages” (Elements of Music). The rhythm patterns change throughout this piece. It begins to slow then changes to a faster pace. Along with changing rhythmic patterns there is a change in melody. The song changes from low to high pitches. Dissonance and consonance harmonic tones create the different reactions from the listeners. After looking closer to the musical elements that make this piece it did not change the way I perceived the song, but it did help me recognize how the piece changes…

second movement being slow, the third and fourth movements being fast as well. The entire piece plays through all different types of dynamics, often changing quickly between getting really soft and then louder. It goes between periods of consonance and dissonance, which gives it variety and makes it exciting to listen to while still being pleasing to the ear. Overall it is a very beautiful and complex piece of work and I am so glad I was able to hear it performed live and in its…

From my perspective, Chester by William Billings is genuinely a combination of tenor, melodic concordance and clashing dissonances with quite harmonious consonances which consist of fluent It is also made up of changeable levels of syncopation. Of all the things in this song that I found that is attractive to me first, I will strongly state that its complexity of rhythm that is sensitively mess but actually in harmony in different aspects. What’s more, complicated melodies in a wide range also…

For my concert critique, I went to Jason Terry’s Doctoral Piano Recital on Tuesday, December 1st at the School of Music in room 206. Because Terry was able to pick the pieces he played, he picked a range of different pieces to emphasize his wide range of talent. He included older and modern pieces including Bach, Godowsky, Balakirev, Zorn, and Liszt. The first piece he played was “Prelude & Fugue, BWV 872” composed by Bach. I was a little unsure about the nature and form of this piece because…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as just Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer’s life span: Born in January 27, 1756 and died in December 5, 1791 Location: Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, son of Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Perti. Mozart was raised in Salzburg, Austria along with his only sister Maria Anna. Mozart did a good amount of traveling before finally settling in Vienna, Austria with his wife Constanze Weber. Genres:…

violins that are similar to the tempo of the violins in the Dance of the Youths and Maidens in The Rite of Spring. My favorite moments of the piece were when the cellist’s used pizzicato in the background illustrating a feeling of consonance, then the sudden hit of dissonance with the quartet’s…

off really dramatic and there is a wavelike contour. The range of this piece is narrow and the movement is conjunct. There is also a lot of variation used in this piece. This was the longest piece performed out of the other pieces. There is some dissonance used in this piece and there is a lot of hand crossing in this piece. Hearing this piece being played in its entirety is really three different songs and instead of…

 Musical Notes Can Count Jerri Pineda Abstract— The development of mathematics involves early connections with music and the basic physics of sound. Mathematics is present in the natural occurrence of the ratios and intervals found in music and modern tuning systems. As people age, their hearing becomes dull and require change in the music ratio and interval to hear the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine…