hello mr. fenton and listers,
But if there's no dissonance, there's also no consonance. You can't change the definition of one without altering the definition of the other, [snip]
of course i understand what you say it's true from a musical syntax standpoint. but from a more acoustical approach, it might be seen as consonance/dissonance is a 'degree' property. so any interval or chord (meaning any simultaneity) have a certain degree of consonance/dissonance.
Which is exactly how Hindemith treats it at the beginning of "The Craft of Musical Composition," giving the theoretical basis for Neo-Classicism much as Rameau had given the theoretical basis for major/minor tonality in 1722.
John
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