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.
Commentaries? In other words, opinions, right? Let me know when there are some valid, controlled studies available rather than just commentaries. Hey, there might be dissertations waiting to be written!
John
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