Re:Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third
by slaymaker1907 on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:19AM
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This is incorrect. Consonance or dissonance is based on physical properties of the sounds. As the paper mentions, pleasantness of the consonance vs dissonance varies from culture to culture. The paper specifically mentions in the abstract that the other cultures were able to distinguish consonance from dissonance.
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Re:Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third
by zozbot234 on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:42AM
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The physical property is generally called "roughness" (mostly to disambiguate wrt. the structural sense of 'dissonance' in composition) and is really more of a psychoacoustic property, since it relates to a feature of hearing known as critical bandwidth.