Through it, by creating the tonic chord as fundamental, the rivalry between the tonic, dominant, and subdominant is overcome, and all dissonances finally resolved into unity.
He always slipped off from the right key and struck consonances where dissonances stood written on the score, and vice versa.
That is, he had cut a leaf of note-paper into two halves; the one contained the dissonances of the melody and the questions of the text thereto, on the other stood the solutions and the answers.
In this sublime pause of things all dissonances have disappeared.
In short, his passion is grandeur, his fault is excess; his distinguishing mark is a kind of Titanic power with strange dissonances of puerility in its magnificence.
In startling contrast with the alluring charms of Rubinstein’s Oriental and Semitic traits are the harsh dissonances of Moussorgsky, Scriabin, and Stravinsky.
Musical frightfulness is rampant in some of his symphonies, in which horrible dissonances clash fiercely and “without warning.
Es muss ein Wunderbares sein" is notable for novel effects in harmonies of crystal with light dissonances to edge the facets.
And the ending is simply superb, though I could wish that some of the terrific dissonances in the accompaniment had been put into the unisonal voices to widen the effect and strengthen the final grandeur.
Even dissonances are used, sparingly but bravely enough to give an idea of the different elements that make music something more than a sweetish impotence.
The breaking up of the modal system was foreshadowed when composers became impatient with the placidity and colorlessness of the modal harmonies and began to introduce unexpected dissonances for the sake of variety.
As far back as the early decades of the sixteenth century Venice had begun to loosen the bands of mediaeval choral law, and by a freer use of dissonances to prepare the ear for a new order of perceptions.
Chromatic changes, at first irregular and unsystematized, come gradually into use as a means of attaining greater intensity; dissonances become more pronounced, foreshadowing the change of key system with all its consequences.
I regret this, for the talk about dissonances began to be interesting.
Technically considered, it is a marvellous blending of old independent movement of parts with modern dissonances and progressions.
Monteverde began to use these dissonances in his madrigals, of which the Fifth Book, published in 1599, aroused Artusi's ire.
Dissonances need to be brought out in such prominence that they may not appear to be accidental misconceptions, and that confident expectation may be aroused of their ultimate resolution.
Some of the instruments had counted wrong in the rests," he said; "if I had let them play a few measures more the most horrible dissonances would have resulted.
The sensual, dreamy mood thus represented is broken in upon by the harsh dissonances and disjointed rhythm of the poisoning scene, and ends with a pathetic ensemble and the swooning of the lovers.
Especially remarkable is the interlude between the stanzas, with its wealth of dissonances and waves of flashing color.
The last measures--with the high trill on the violin and cuttingdissonances on the pianoforte--are far too exciting for mere verbal description.
The pace gradually quickens, the volume of sound increases and we are brought, through a series of pungent dissonances and stimulating syncopations, to a brilliant assertion of the first theme in D major.
Down to Beethoven we find dissonances correctly employed by all the old masters.
And greater and nobler effects were attained than are possible to our modern musicians with their accumulation of dissonances and sudden contrasts.
And he spoke of the score as a gruesome combat of dissonances in which the wood-wind howls in runs of chromatic thirds while the brass growls and all the strings rage!
Yet their dissonances are much more marked and fundamental.
Therefore dissonances must be introduced, although they disquiet us and affect us almost painfully, but only in order to be resolved again in consonances with proper preparation.
After eight bold introductory bars with piercing dissonancesbegins the first subject, which, with its rhythmically differently-accompanied repetition, is the most important constituent of the movement.
The true sense then is not that of the Jews, but in Jesus Christ all dissonances are brought into harmony.
Against this it may be urged that devolution has its harmonics as well as evolution, that every symphony is made up of dissonances as well as of harmonies.
The great composition to be performed is the "Symphony of Life," its infinitude of dissonances and melodies blending into one colossal tone picture of harmony and grandeur.
The dissonances of life increase with the years, and the material of life becomes so immense that it is impossible to survey it properly.
But this masquerade gives rise to the deepest dissonances and troubles.
His dissonances cannot be resolved except in the terms of his own matchless art.
The accustomed and thrice-barren modulations from event to event are swept away; unprepared dissonances are of continual occurrence.
The light flared into his down-bent face, bringing out its dissonances almost grotesquely in that small, momentary flash.
His was the magic gift of glamour, and all the dissonances and inharmonies of appearance as well as of character seemed but the italics emphasizing his charm.
Berlioz abhorred enharmonic modulations, dissonances resolved indefinitely one after another, continuous melody and all current practices of futuristic music.
It does not exclude evil; it admits dissonances; only we assert that it does not cease to be harmony if these dissonances pave the way to concord, and bring us back to it.
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