At a time when dissonance, serialism and other styles were in vogue and many of his colleagues were writing works meant to be both modern and specifically American, Hovhaness embraced tonality and also showed a fondness for archaic elements like the polyphony of Renaissance music and the counterpoint of Baroque fugues.
Menotti used largely traditional harmonies, resorting at times to dissonance and polytonality to heighten dramatic effect.
Of course, the only thing that would remedy the Times' cognitive dissonance other than New York approving same-sex marriage would be for Iowans to change their constitution to make same-sex marriage illegal - which many politicians and citizens are assiduously working to do.
And I felt that I couldn't move in that direction because at that time and place, dissonance was the way.
Thandie Newton's host madam, Maeve, is having an even harder time with the dissonance.
But there are times when quiet dissonance has its own appeal, and this is one of them.
The musicologist W. Dean Sutcliffe points to the recurrence of C♯ at key points in each movement, serving at different times to create dissonance, to commence modulation (music) away from the tonic, or, as in the case of the finale, as a device for inflection.
Dr. Grubman assured me that if I were an actual billionaire, I would resolve the dissonance in time.
Consonance can be defined as the normal range of tone combinations accepted by theorists and composers of any given time as implying repose; dissonance, therefore, refers to any sounds outside that range.
Music expresses, and allows us to hear and enjoy, the movement of the soul in time through difference and dissonance back into its unity with itself.
