How do you tell the difference between the consonance and the dissonance, then?
Without reference to other music or a system of rules not reflected in the musical text where the dissonance is never resolved, the two terms are simply meaningless.
At least, so it seems to *me*.
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
Such a statement is supportable only if you believe that musical perception is a purely cultural phenonmenon without any biological basis.
I would agree that there is no hard-and-fast natural boundary between the dissonant and the consonant, and that culture plays a big role in drawing such arbitrary boundaries. However, I would think that anyone, ever, from anywhere, would agree that a minor second is much more dissonant than a perfect fifth, and that those two extreme intervals are absolutely dissonant and absolutely consonant respectively, and without regard to musical context.
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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
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