Dissonance
(DI-suh-nens)
Two or more notes sounded together which are discordant, and, in the prevailing harmonic system, require resolution to a consonance.
See discord.
SUGGESTED LISTENING EXAMPLES:
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, "Dance of the Youths and Maidens"
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 1, Track 18
- Ives: 67th Psalm
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 3, Track 46
- Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25, I
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Disc 3, Track 40
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