CLASSICAL Archives

Moderated Classical Music List

CLASSICAL@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Dissonance
From:
Todd Michel McComb <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:27:43 -0800
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (12 lines) 
Ron Chaplin asks:

>Hearing this work [Biber Battalia] started me wondering just when
>dissonance began to be used as a means of expression.

The earliest medieval theorists, Anonymous IV and the like, discuss the use
of dissonance in polyphonic expression.  The discussion is quite refined
and specific by the era of Jacobus of Liege in the early 1300s.

Todd McComb
[log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2