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Dissonance – In The Eye Of The Beholder?

MUSIC Posted: May 30, 2014 1:23 pm

Discordant sounds are just one element of dissonance. One reason the term is elusive is that the concept is both subjective (“What is harmony to one ear, may be dissonance to another,” as the writer Joseph Addison put it in 1711) and contextual.

MUSIC Published: 05.30.14

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