Word: dissonante
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Over the Cracker Barrel. Ruggles has had to struggle harder than any other composer for answers to 20th century musical questions. Nobody else's methods-not Stravinsky's, Bartok's, Webern's or Berg's-would suffice. And so, what he worked out for himself...
During the festivities, the story was told of the day years ago when Carl was sitting at the baby grand piano inside his little white house in nearby Arlington. He was hammering out the same dissonant chord over and over in an all too obvious and painful search for yet...
ANDREW HILL ANDREW!!! (Blue Note). Pianist Hill has his own very definite views of modern jazz piano. His music is filled with gently dissonant surgings, expressive rippling lines that are as romantic as they are atonal, and intuitive, crosshatched rhythms that emerge and then break off. Helping him project this...
Balancing Dissonance. The reason, perhaps, was that Vuillard never probed his sitter's secrets. As if telling too much about his subjects might embarrass them, he set them in surroundings they loved and gave both equal weight in the painting. Harmony was his aim. His success in balancing dissonant...
Last week Silverman's experimental "pop opera," Elephant Steps, had its premiere at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, and it sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises...