Music Theory

Christensen, Thomas

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“…The structure of Western music depends on the consonance and dissonance (C/D) of its sonorities (Christensen, 2006;Parncutt & Hair, 2011), but perception of C/D and theories about it changed from one historical period to the next (Tenney, 1988). Before the advent of written polyphony in the 12th century (Bevilacqua, 2016), Western music was melodic and rhythmic, and C/D was understood to refer to successive tones (melodic C/D).…”

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Consonance and Dissonance of Simultaneous Trichords in Western Music

Parncutt

Engel

Radovanovic

2023

Psihol. teme (Online)

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Previous empirical studies have suggested that the perceived consonance/dissonance (C/D) of a musical chord depends on its psychoacoustic smoothness (lack of roughness), spectral harmonicity (perceptual fusion), and/or musical familiarity. We tested the dependence of C/D on smoothness and harmonicity in a hearing experiment that included all 19 possible trichords in musical pitch-class set theory. In each trial, a listener heard a chord (duration: 300 or 500 ms) and rated its C/D on an 11-point scale. Each trichord was presented 10 times: 4 times constructed from octave-complex tones (OCTs, sounding like an electronic organ) and 6 times from natural piano tones. Each OCT chord was presented in 4 different transpositions. The piano chords were in close or open position, and root position or 1st/2nd inversion (2 levels of spacing x 3 levels of inversion = 6 levels of voicing). We found no main effect of timbre (OCT versus piano) and no interaction between trichord and timbre. Results correlated closely with predictions of simple models of roughness and harmonicity. The roughness model performed better, and the predictions correlated with each other. A combined model was not superior to roughness alone. The results were consistent with a multifactorial model of the C/D of a musical chord, the main factors being roughness, harmonicity, and familiarity.

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Consonance and Dissonance of Simultaneous Trichords in Western Music

Parncutt

Engel

Radovanovic

2023

Psihol. teme (Online)

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A Musical Variation on Late Medieval Religious Reform: Johannes Nider and the Observant Dominican Liturgy

Jones

2024

Austrian Hist Yearbk

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The Dominican friar Johannes Nider (1380–1438), known today as the father of witchcraft literature, played an important role at the Council of Basel (1431–49) on the Council's delegation to the Hussites and its deputation on religious reform. Despite Nider's reputation as a reformer of religious communities, his approach to communal liturgy has not attracted close attention. This article focuses on his broad theoretical treatise, De reformatione religiosorum or De reformatione status cenobitici (On the Reform of the Religious State), in which Nider articulates a philosophical concept of reform as the restoration of beauty, manifested in well-ordered and balanced proportion. In the interest of universal applicability, the treatise remains abstract. However, biographical descriptions of Nider from his contemporaries and the visitation letters he wrote to women's convents show Nider as an engaged liturgical leader, a talented singer with a robust voice, and a zealous expert in the legal particulars of Dominican liturgical regulations. In light of these contexts, De reformatione's sweeping laments over liturgical neglect and academic metaphors of well-disposed proportion are not just rule-hammering and scholastic fancy but rather universalized expressions of Nider's lived commitment to Dominican musical and ritual practice.

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Music Theory

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Consonance and Dissonance of Simultaneous Trichords in Western Music

Consonance and Dissonance of Simultaneous Trichords in Western Music

A Musical Variation on Late Medieval Religious Reform: Johannes Nider and the Observant Dominican Liturgy

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