The emancipation of discordance
| dc.contributor.advisor | Drott, Eric, 1972- | |
| dc.creator | Cox, Daniel Nathan | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-09T20:31:17Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2014-10-09T20:31:17Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study proposes a primarily esthesic, listener-oriented approach to discussing music that is "out of tune" or discordant. The paper is divided into two main sections: in part one I work to define discordance as a type of qualia experienced when a hypothetical listener perceives something as "out of tune." I then present a classification scheme for categorizing different varieties of discordance qualia, based on the perceived intentionality behind discordant events. This system details three primary categories of discordance: 1) incidental, whereby discordance is introduced via a performer's mistake or oversight; 2) expressive, which includes discordances introduced intentionally by a performer; and 3) structural, whereby the discordance is systemic, resulting from factors outside the control of any individual performer. In part two, I present an analytic essay on a movement from Easley Blackwood's 1980 Twelve Microtonal Etudes, a work that invokes structural discordance qualia in listeners enculturated in twelve-tone equal temperament. This analysis explores Blackwood's attempt to mimic functional tonal syntax in nineteen-tone equal temperament, and describes the impact of the structural discordance qualia on familiar varieties of tonal ambiguity. | en |
| dc.description.department | Music | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26420 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Discordance | en |
| dc.subject | Qualia | en |
| dc.subject | Tuning | en |
| dc.subject | Temperament | en |
| dc.title | The emancipation of discordance | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Music | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Music | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Music | en |