Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly
Gresham College Lecture
Thursday 25 April 2024 • 6pm
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The Event
Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s
Lecture by
Professor Milton Mermikides
The event will finish at approximately 7pm
Tickets
Free. Please visit the Gresham website for more information and to book.
Pre-registration for in-person and online attendance required.
What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful or ugly?
This lecture explores the concept of ‘musical flavour’ formed by intervallic, rhythmic and timbral components and how they contribute to a sense of consonance and dissonance.
In particular we look at the interval vector, a system by which harmonic objects are analysed as a series of ‘handshakes’ between pitches, providing a measure of harmonic ‘bite’. The ‘Hendrix chord’ is used as a case study of such harmonic flavour.
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