Robert Peters ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I just listened to Haydns Creation for the first time (and certainly not
>for the last time!).  The oratorio begins with the representation of the
>chaos.  The CD booklet says this beginning is extremely dissonant music.
>I didnt hear that, in the contrary: it sounded harmonious to me.  What is
>the reason? My amateur ear (I would be the first to admit this)? Being used
>to dissonant music as a man of the present time? Is the booklet wrong? (Or
>am I an addict to harmony?)

You are a man of your times.  To early 19th century listeners that chaos
*did* sound dissonant.

Deryk Barker
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