Originally Posted By: PeterGannon
To me, dissonance is a musical and subjective term, and it is in the ear of the beholder, rather than being explainable based on harmonics etc. I would define dissonance as a voicing of notes that sound unpleasant to the listener.

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The above is true, but you can't even begin to classify what is and what is not dissonant without referral to the frequency and timbre of the note (in and out of aural context).

I think there is a semantic thing going on here, some use the term like a finger in a cake shop, subjectively. It is like the word "like", a personal preference.

When I describe a note that is dissonant I note that is rarely a perfect fifth. Sketching in the notes in perfect fifth cycles gives more and more dissonance, by a symmetrical pattern: Root 5 9 6 3 7 #4 b9 b6 b9 #9 b7 4 1 . (The chromatic scale)

I am thinking this might be a way to classify dissonance?... possibly it does quite well, but the perfecft fourth seems logically out of place.

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interesting thread


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