The silence halfway through, the abrupt ending, and the unexpected dissonances are all such striking features that they immediately beg questions.
Historical interpretations exist in groups, and sometimes support each other for reasons of social function despite apparent methodological dissonances.
Whereas dissonances were previously avoided in the initial treatment, they are now omnipresent.
The educational function of this passage is obvious: the contemporary listener perceives the overemphasized play of dissonances as both repulsive and, perhaps, even ridiculous.
He observed that the author of the treatise advanced a new regulative principle for handling dissonances based on time/space considerations.
In fact, it may not always be correct to regard such effects as" dissonances" at all.
In his introduction, he speaks of 'history giving voice to the dissonances within the region's imagined communities'.
The layering of the different walks was immersive, with overlapping words and incidental harmonies and dissonances.
