MUSC 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Red Mckenzie, Orval Faubus, Hot Chocolates

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Dissonance dissonance is central to western musical practice including jazz. For historical and psychoacoustical reasons, certain notes go together in ways that are unstable, that is, they sound as if some other groups of notes should follow, this second group being relatively stable (consonance). When this happens, it is said that the dissonant interval, or chord, or note, resolves to a consonant interval, or chord, or note. Intervals can be dissonant or consonant, chords can be dissonant of consonant because of the kinds of intervals contained in them, and notes can be dissonant or consonant in relation to other notes of the chord. Go to the virtual keyboard (or a piano) and play two notes directly adjacent to each other. This interval (the distance between two notes) is usually considered to be dissonant. Now play two white keys that have one white key between them.

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