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2 unusual facts about dissonance


Dissonance

Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.

Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)


A Grin Without a Cat

Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution (the grin) with its actual nonexistence.

Brian Dewan

His electronic music, either solo or in collaboration with his cousin, Leon Dewan, tends to be more sprawling and free-form, often evoking the dissonance of early analog electronic music.

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

Koji Igarashi produced Harmony of Dissonance with the intent of "creating a game that was similar to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night", the critically acclaimed PlayStation game that he had worked on.

Festinger

Leon Festinger (1919–1989), American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the theory of cognitive dissonance

Glasgow Monday

It is also devoid of the dissonance associated with most Corwood albums, with Jandek's piano playing being compared to Erik Satie and his speak/singing staying in a mellow timbre that never moves into his atonal wail.

Ion Dissonance

In April 2007, Ion Dissonance recorded their album, Minus the Herd.

Joseph Solomon Delmedigo

In the area of music, Delmedigo discusses the physics of music including string resonance, intervals and their proportions, consonance and dissonance.

Post-romanticism

Béla Bartók, for example, "in such Strauss-influenced works as Duke Bluebeard's Castle," may be described as having still used, "dissonance 'such intervals as fourths and sevenths' for purposes of post-Romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound" - unlike Arnold Schoenberg and Strauss himself, who both believed in "a mythology of historical progress in Western music".

Scientific priority

Boring, E.G., "Cognitive Dissonance: Its Use in Science", Science, Vol.145, No.3633, (14 August 1964), pp.

Shane Sanders

During that period he began experimenting with various forms of dissonance and musique concrète that would influence his later work in a genre often called dark ambient or sometimes damnbient.

Thayer Sarrano

Reviewing King, Americana UK has called her "the new queen of shoegaze", noting the "spookiness" achieved with the lap steel, repetitive lyrics, dissonance and Sarrano's voice, and compared her to Mazzy Star and Mary Margaret O'Hara.

The Arts Fuse

Maryann Corbett (poet, author, Breath Control, Gardening in a Time of War, and and Dissonance)

Unified field

In Béla Bartók's Bagatelles, and several of Alfredo Casella's Nine Piano Pieces such as No. 4 'In Modo Burlesco' the close intervallic relationship between motive and chord creates or justifies the great harmonic dissonance.

When Prophecy Fails

In this case, if Keech could add consonant elements by converting others to the basic premise, then the magnitude of her dissonance following disconfirmation would be reduced.

Festinger and his colleagues saw this as a case that would lead to the arousal of dissonance when the prophecy failed.


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