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Clarifying Musical Consonance
- Author(s):
- Joel Edelman (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- American Musicological Society, International Musicological Society (IMS), Music and Sound, Society for Music Theory (SMT)
- Subject(s):
- Music theory, Tonality
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- consonance, dissonance, harmonics
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/mb2g-t860
- Abstract:
- Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few decades - some of it quite substantial - we still lack a coherent understanding of this central issue. In this paper I will attempt a forward step by both defining and explaining consonance as distinct and objective matters.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 months ago
- License:
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