If his harmonies had been as conflict-seeking as his rhythms, he might be considered the most dissonant composer of the Romantic era.
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L'Herbier arranged for a concert by the avant-garde composer George Antheil, instructed him to play his most dissonant pieces and used hidden cameras to film the violently mixed audience response.
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The first movement is the most dissonant, with greens, ochers, and bloody reds clanging against each other as chain-link patterns emerge from soot-black fissures, evoking news images of Guantanamo Bay and children in cages on the border.
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A manual of harmony for use in music-schools and seminaries and for self-instruction, p.165. Theodore Baker, trans. G. Schirmer. The major seventh interval is considered one of the most dissonant intervals after its inversion the minor second.
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Amidst controversy the library was dispersed in 1988.Hargreaves, 1993, p.50. This is another Modernist building but now in contrasting materials. The most dissonant structure in the group it has steeply inclined slab roofs and extensive areas of glazing.
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Reviews generally cite Zauberberg as the darkest, most dissonant Gas release. The CD and vinyl pressings feature notable differences. The songs are re-ordered for the CD format, with several presented as extended versions. For Zauberberg's inclusion in the Nah und Fern boxed set, track 6 of the CD was replaced with an extended version of the same piece.
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Hegarty 2007, 13–14. In his 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises he observes: > At first the art of music sought purity, limpidity and sweetness of sound. > Then different sounds were amalgamated, care being taken, however, to caress > the ear with gentle harmonies. Today music, as it becomes continually more > complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange and harsh > sounds.
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82–84, widely known today as the "War Sonatas." These sonatas contain some of Prokofiev's most dissonant music for the piano. Biographer Daniel Jaffé has argued that Prokofiev, "having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of the nirvana Stalin wanted everyone to believe he had created" (i.e. in Zdravitsa) then subsequently, in these three sonatas, "expressed his true feelings".
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In the 1970s, the concept of art itself expanded and groups like Survival Research Laboratories, Borbetomagus and Elliott Sharp embraced and extended the most dissonant and least approachable aspects of these musical/spatial concepts. Around the same time, the first postmodern wave of industrial noise music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and NON (aka Boyd Rice).Media.hyperreal.org, Prehistory of Industrial Music 1995 Brian Duguid, esp. chapter "Access to Information".
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"Piggy was a big progressive music fan," Mongrain said. "These chords are the most dissonant you can get and in Voivod, Piggy would throw them everywhere. It has that crazy, chaotic, end-of-the- world, post-nuclear vibe that's really associated with Voivod now." Langevin also specifically references the "progressive thrash metal" sound of Target Earth, which he contrasts to the "stoner-punk-metal" approach of the previous three albums that Voivod completed with bassist Jason Newsted.
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Their size differs by exactly one syntonic comma (81:80, or about 21.5 cents). Some equal temperaments, such as 15-ET and 22-ET, also distinguish between a greater and a lesser tone. The major second was historically considered one of the most dissonant intervals of the diatonic scale, although much 20th-century music saw it reimagined as a consonance. It is common in many different musical systems, including Arabic music, Turkish music and music of the Balkans, among others.
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Most of Hindemith's music employs a unique system that is tonal but non-diatonic. Like most tonal music, it is centred on a tonic and modulates from one tonal centre to another, but it uses all 12 notes freely rather than relying on a scale picked as a subset of these notes. Hindemith even rewrote some of his music after developing this system. One of the key features of his system is that he ranks all musical intervals of the 12-tone equally tempered scale from the most consonant to the most dissonant.
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Frederick William Robertson started visiting and walking there. He remarked "I was pleased to hear not a single human soul far or near ... above there were a few dense clouds, edged with light, sailing across a marvellous blue ... I heard nothing but the sea, falling with a most dissonant, heavy, endless clang upon the shore". At the time the area was much more extensive: graves ran beyond the present south wall on the site of Church Road. The churchyard gained another in 1858, but even this was filled soon afterwards.
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In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, consonance is typically associated with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability; dissonance is associated with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability although this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise . The terms form a structural dichotomy in which they define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and a dissonance is what is not consonant. However, a finer consideration shows that the distinction forms a gradation, from the most consonant to the most dissonant .
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And not to prove a point, but because they like howling at the moon! Which is what sets them apart." John Dougan from AllMusic describes The Godz as follows: "Few bands in the annals of rock & roll were stranger than the New York City-based Godz...the Godz coughed up some of the strangest, most dissonant, purposely incompetent rock noise ever produced...Sounding like a prototype for Half Japanese or the Shaggs, the Godz play as if they discovered their instruments ten minutes before the tape started rolling. The singing is intentionally off- key, almost parodic, and the songs...well, they sound more like improvised snippets than actual compositions.
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Both of these positions have been challenged. While it is conceded to be Villa-Lobos's most dissonant work, analysis shows this is a case of polytonality, rather than atonality, and while the use of short repeated motifs with variations and rhythmic transformations are the essence of primitivist rhythmic animation, these procedures are also the very definition of symphonic thematic development . The composer characterised the work as the "Dance Chôros", and construed the fragmented and contrapuntally intertwined opening themes as "sensually complex and atonal in order to deliberately give the feeling of nervousness of a crowd that is gathering to dance" . The work appears to be conceived as an exploration of the possibilities of concatenation of sound blocks assembled from ostinato figurations.
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3:5:7's intonation sensitivity pattern is similar to 4:5:6's (the just major chord), more similar than that of the minor chord.Mathews; Pierce (1989). pp. 165–166. This similarity suggests that our ears will also perceive 3:5:7 as harmonic. The 3:5:7 chord may thus be considered the major triad of the BP scale. It is approximated by an interval of 6 equal-tempered BP semitones () on bottom and an interval of 4 equal-tempered semitones on top (semitones: 0,6,10; ). A minor triad is thus 6 semitones on top and 4 semitones on bottom (0,4,10; ). 5:7:9 is the first inversion of the major triad (0,4,7; ).Mathews; Pierce (1989). p. 169. A study of chromatic triads formed from arbitrary combinations of the 13 tones of the chromatic scale among twelve musicians and twelve untrained listeners found 0,1,2 (semitones) to be the most dissonant chord () but 0,11,13 () was considered the most consonant by the trained subjects and 0,7,10 () was judged most consonant by the untrained subjects.
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