Emancipation of Dissonance
What is meant by the “Emancipation of Dissonance?” Who came up with this idea? Think about your own philosophy of tuning and “consonant” music that you are used to performing and then consider this: why does dissonant music “feel” out of place, and why is that such a powerful assumption in your life? Discuss!
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Emancipation of dissonance means the freeing of musical notes so that they are played without harmony. This lead to feeling of clash in the music being played and it can be very disturbing. The intervals in emancipation dissonance usually cause a feeling of tension. The person who came up with the ‘emancipation of dissonance’ in music is Arnold Schoenberg, his student Anton Webern and other people in 1926……………………
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