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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Stability, Instability


"A stable tone combination is a consonance; consonances are points of arrival, rest, and resolution."
"An unstable tone combination is a dissonance; its tension demands an onward motion to a stable chord. Thus dissonant chords are 'active'; traditionally they have been considered harsh and have expressed pain, grief, and conflict."

—Roger Kamien 


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