Understanding Musical Consonance and Dissonance: Epistemological Considerations from a Systemic Perspective

Systems

Nicola Di Stefano¹  Marta Bertolaso¹  Gianfranco Minati² 

[1] Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21-00128 Roma, Italy;id="af1-systems-02-00566">1Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21-00128 Roma, Ita

关键词: consonance;    dissonance;    music;    systems understanding;    context;    embodiment;    emergence;    dynamism;   

DOI  :  10.3390/systems2040566

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Different accounts have been given in order to face the problem of the emergence of musical consonance and dissonance. Getting a more adequate comprehension of such phenomenology may require a systemic view to integrate such multidimensionality into a unitary picture in which every partial solution enlightens a particular aspect of the very same problem. Such a systemic viewpoint shifts the focus from different explanations to analytic dimensions that seem to be embedded in music perception. Taking into consideration these dimensions means understanding consonance and dissonance in an embodied context, in which arithmetic, physics, psychology and physiology are part of a complex and dynamic process of understanding, which is not reducible to any privileged explanatory level.

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