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  2. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. [1]

  3. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    There are many examples of song melodies that are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. For example, "Frère Jacques" and "Three Blind Mice" combine euphoniously when sung together. A number of popular songs that share the same chord progression can also be sung together as

  4. Resolution (music) - Wikipedia

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    Dominant seventh tritone "strict resolution" (in C): a dissonance of a d5 resolves stepwise inwards to a consonance of a M3 or its inversion, a dissonance of an A4, resolves stepwise outwards to a consonance of a m6. [1] Play inward ⓘ or outward ⓘ Regular resolution in F major Play ⓘ. One common tone, two notes move by half step motion ...

  5. Tritone - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most striking use of the interval in rock music of the late 1960s can be found in Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze". According to Dave Moskowitz (2010, p. 12), Hendrix "ripped into 'Purple Haze' by beginning the song with the sinister sounding tritone interval creating an opening dissonance, long described as 'The Devil in Music'."

  6. 20th-century classical music - Wikipedia

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    (Top) 1 History. 2 Styles. ... 3.3 Free dissonance and experimentalism. ... 20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and 2000 ...

  7. Karnan (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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    Ashutosh Mohan of Film Companion South wrote "The songs in Karnan are not just a musical escape. Lyrics are melded to the music and they steep the listener in Karnan's world. Santhosh Narayanan uses minimal sounds to create a specific soundscape and the music mirrors this ambiguity by setting up a permanent dissonance in the background.

  8. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    In popular and jazz harmony, chords are named by their root plus various terms and characters indicating their qualities. In many types of music, notably baroque, romantic, modern, and jazz, chords are often augmented with "tensions". A tension is an additional chord member that creates a relatively dissonant interval in relation to the bass.

  9. Emancipation of the dissonance - Wikipedia

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    The emancipation of the dissonance was a concept or goal put forth by composer Arnold Schoenberg and others, including his pupil Anton Webern, who styled it The Path to the New Music. The phrase first appears in Schoenberg's 1926 essay "Opinion or Insight?". [1] It may be described as a metanarrative to justify atonality.