At 08:41 AM 2/4/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: >they look for that good old mix of dissonance and consonance >where the composer builds the tension masterfully and controls the >release, so that the audience feels good at the end.
Let's mix it up some more! :) There have been some pretty intense commentaries about this tension-release technique being sexually analogous and gender-specific, and that in recent years, women composers have emancipated their writing from the build-to-climax model implicit in harmonic and architectural tension-release, and that women listeners are drawn to the sound of the newer paradigm. This viewpoint was expressed to me by a younger composer (mid-20s) who was, how can I phrase this, 'sad but understanding' about her talented older colleagues' capitulation to the male compositional model, and was happy to see her contemporaries had set it aside. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
