#consonance

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apparition

(ione meraki 2025)

[astrosciencelover3742]

WIP

[noosphe-re]

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that 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. In casual discourse, as German composer and music theorist Paul Hindemith stressed, "The two concepts have never been completely explained, and for a thousand years the definitions have varied". The term sonance has been proposed to encompass or refer indistinctly to the terms consonance and dissonance.

Wikipedia

[env0writes]

NaPoWriMo Vol. 3, 17.26.24 “Crystal Clear"

Even when the evening Eases into the easel stained night Splattered with smattering of paint More bruised than bashed-in-blueberries alight I am left inundated, instigating inopportune moments Momentarily left mum, silence is the story Setting on the shelf, sun and done and book closed hence No deciduous decisions, sprouting tall and confident No starry moonlight night, alright? No night sky sigh Even as the eventide, bids good tidings Paint spilled on the patio and the portico High tide fog, forgetfully fading into dark hidings Even as it all allocates and advocated Smudged as a child’s drawing Vibrant and violently abdicated For the falsest of faeries reside within such painted worlds Constantly concerned with conscious calligraphy Brush strokes bothering the best and better Not less and lesser of folks that fiddle with paint That taint the canvas of life and skin and skim the fat from life Even in that evening Eased by every opportunity Each and every educated guess bereaving Leaving each lesson unlearned unblurred

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[phoenixculpa]

overdue and undone,

blonde washes out

like wishes past gone,

washed up, and away,

undulated deathly

rebound, veins

unparalleled now

and forever, water

chugged to her

absent coca cola,

lover never was,

never did, couldn’t

have been but

an ideal, fleeting

like city heat to

snow puddles,

greying angel,

unamused by

blues and onyx,

they warn that

baggage may

be heavy, but

i don’t flinch,

clear the mind

with words and

stanzas, reread, to

alter perspective,

uncannily stoic

to bend, and

adapt, need a

new lobby that

isn’t haunted,

a plant alive,

and far from the

freezing slide door,

automatic

[generalinternetyouth]

"Just live life with liveliness."

-generalinternetyouth

[figurationoftheinvisible]

Musica Universalis

“Elements that are held under tension (entasis) contrast with those that are relaxed, and together they comprise a set of intersecting relationships that describe the arc and string of a bow drawn to the point of releasing an arrow. Bios Biós, as the ancient saying goes, ‘Life is a bow.’ The metaphor of a bow also appears in the Hippocratic corpus of medical tracts, where one bone setter likens properly adjusted limbs to a drawn bow in which opposite forces are balanced against one another.” — The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece - When did musicians in Europe begin using scales that were not based on seven notes?

- Many 19th-century composers set out to look for sound elements within popular folklore and the cultural roots of their native countries, that they could later incorporate into their works. This trend or movement was known as Nationalism. However, some European countries have always used other scales in their music. An example of this is Russia—the Russians use pentatonic scales in their oldest melodies and the nationalist composers (in this case belonging to Russian Nationalism) used that resource to invest their works with that "national feeling" that identified them so distinctly. That can be a beginning.

Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Impressionists, led by Claude Debussy, went even further and incorporated scales from different regions of the world. Debussy himself, for example, used hexatonal and pentatonic scales in his pieces. Henceforth the trend continued, as these sonorities became a fresh response to a prevailing tonal system whose resources had become exhausted. But we must remember that scales other than those from seven tones have been used throughout history and since ancient times, even in Europe. That is why their sonorities are so exotic and at the same time so familiar, and it is because of this that they somehow bring us closer to our past and origin.

https://youtu.be/_MSZKjaSOrw

- Is there such a thing as irregular intervals?

- The intervals are classified in several ways, but the most common is the consonant and dissonant. That is, put simply, those that are pleasant and harmonious to our ears, and those that are shocking, strident. These two forces govern the tonal system, as it is a system that transits eternally through moments of tension and relaxation. Harmony teaches us how to get the most out of this, how to chain chords in the most balanced way. It is a dense subject, but vital in the understanding of musical theory.

               — for Alberto On the tonal system:  https://figurationoftheinvisible.tumblr.com/post/180990208043/the-tonalities-of-music-major-minor-keys

Image: John Singer Sargent, Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, 1879–80

[omnificent-orion]

Something quick that I drew a few weeks ago for Pride Month and to celebrate @powerandmagic ‘s Heartwood anthology finally arriving. The month is now coming to a close, but the celebration of humanity never ends.