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  2. String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    Start of second movement. The second movement is a 3 4 sonatina in F major. The violin's "dissonant" A natural from the quartet's opening now has pride of place as the mediant scale degree. In bars 93–101, the A ♭ returns to prominence as Mozart slips into the parallel minor. [6]: 291 The movement has been called the "heart" of the entire ...

  3. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    The opposition between consonance and dissonance can be made in different contexts: In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective.In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds with harmonic partials).

  4. Emancipation of the dissonance - Wikipedia

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    Rudhyar gave the subtitle "A New Principle of Musical and Social Organization" to his book Dissonant Harmony, writing, "Dissonant music is thus the music of true and spiritual Democracy; the music of universal brotherhoods; music of Free Souls, not of personalities. It abolishes tonalities, exactly as the real Buddhistic Reformation abolished ...

  5. Pandiatonicism - Wikipedia

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    Pandiatonic music typically uses the diatonic notes freely in dissonant combinations without conventional resolutions and/or without standard chord progressions, but always with a strong sense of tonality due to the absence of chromatics.

  6. Whispering - Wikipedia

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    A girl whispers to another girl. Whispering is generally used quietly, to limit the hearing of speech to those closest to the speaker; for example, to convey secret information without being overheard or to avoid disturbing others in a quiet place such as a library or place of worship.

  7. The Downward Spiral - Wikipedia

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    Reznor's singing follows a similar pattern from beginning to end, frequently moving from whispers to screams. [41] These techniques are all used in the song "Hurt", which features a highly dissonant tritone played on guitar during the verses, a B5#11, emphasized when Reznor sings the eleventh note on the word "I" every time the B/E# dyad is ...

  8. Symphony No. 45 (Haydn) - Wikipedia

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    The movement can be explained structurally in terms of sonata form, but it departs from the standard model in a number of ways (just before the recapitulation, for example, new material is introduced, which might have been used as the second subject in the exposition in a more conventional work).

  9. Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    The final movement is declared in Testimony to be a parody of shrillness, representing "forced rejoicing". In the words attributed to the composer in Testimony (a work which has had its authenticity questioned [21] [22]): The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and ...