Originally Posted By: Mark Styles
Dissonance is a very important part of music, without out it, music would get pretty bland. Just like you need black/white, day/night, good/evil.. You need the yin/yang to make something complete.. a dissonant note at the top of a chord, can be very beautiful..

I have discovered, when working with scales,, putting dissonant notes on the and of the beat, sometimes, giving them a shorter duration, and softer velocity, will let you get away with a lot.

Remember, you jump over the dissonant notes, and rest a little longer on the consonant notes. .

Off course you could change this to make a certain musical point.. yes, dissonance is every bit as important as consonance in notes.


Mark Styles


Unpacking this a little. For my ears, Consonance can fall on any beat, but dissonance leans towards the off beats. Obviously rules can be broken.
I was wondering about the classification and function of dissonance. Beyond the chord tones , as they stand in a modal position, it seems to me that the other tones sound dissonant according to their function - the Phrygian chord III, for example implies a flat 9th, a tone belonging to the key, as I think Ray pointed out, beyonf this relationship what about the other tones? Do they have a hierarchy?


I confess I am not really sure of the question, if I was then the answer would be implied


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