tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post1597445930345677141..comments2024-03-18T14:05:44.909-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Emancipation of the Dissonance?Bryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-13021293970242496442015-03-23T07:58:29.935-05:002015-03-23T07:58:29.935-05:00Every now and then I write what I think is a brill...Every now and then I write what I think is a brilliant post about one of the big misunderstandings of music history---and then I find out that a lot of readers aren't familiar with the context!! I will do another post today on that.<br /><br />But in the meantime, harmony developed through voice-leading. You have a bunch of monks singing some single-line chant. When they get bored, some of the monks start moving away from the other ones and we get two separate voices. At first they just did very pure intervals like fourths and fifths (from C to F or C to G), but others started creeping in. As time went on more voices were added until there were three or four separate ones. Other intervals became more common like thirds and sixths. That is a very brief summary of a few hundred years of the history of harmony, but it might clarify a couple of things! Voice-leading is just the way separate voices interact.<br /><br />Now for that other post.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-30140303049319299522015-03-22T15:14:01.584-05:002015-03-22T15:14:01.584-05:00"Alas, history has not cooperated with the em..."Alas, history has not cooperated with the emancipators." Indeed! Civil emancipation is one thing: throwing Western culture into the remainder bins in the name of the idol Progress is just the bloody recreation of barbarians. Look at... will stop before I really begin ranting; will have to think about your post, and figure out what voice-leading is, and emancipating intervals, and am, alas, not so sure about serialism and Arnold S., either, although one knows a bit superficially, enough not to make an ass of oneself over drinks. :-) I think, as I begin to take this business of understanding what I listen to more seriously, that I need to look about for a good book or two about the basics....<br /><br />While I listened to five minutes of the Rautavaara from the other day, didn't pay much attention but looked today: symphonies, concerti, songs, 'Thomas', an opera? The 8th this afternoon.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-4124484988588569652015-03-22T14:57:34.444-05:002015-03-22T14:57:34.444-05:00I'm just in the process of discovering his mus...I'm just in the process of discovering his music.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-62342905008472855742015-03-22T12:40:59.845-05:002015-03-22T12:40:59.845-05:00Wow, gorgeous symphony by Rautavaara! Thanks for s...Wow, gorgeous symphony by Rautavaara! Thanks for sharing.Shantanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09910091531263531496noreply@blogger.com