emancipation of the dissonance

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Emancipation of the dissonance is a modernist musical concept that frees dissonant harmonies from the need to resolve, allowing them to function as independent, expressive sonorities.

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instanceOf aesthetic concept
musical concept
theoretical concept in music
appliesTo chordal sonorities
harmony
melodic intervals
associatedWith Arnold Schoenberg
Second Viennese School
atonality
expressionism in music
modernism in music
twelve-tone technique
contrastsWith common-practice tonality
functional harmony
traditional requirement that dissonance resolve
coreIdea dissonance can be used as a stable expressive resource
dissonance can function as an independent sonority
dissonance is treated as structurally equivalent to consonance in some contexts
dissonant harmonies do not need to resolve to consonance
hierarchical distinction between consonance and dissonance is weakened
describedAs freeing dissonance from obligatory resolution
granting dissonance equal rights with consonance
field 20th-century classical music
modernist music
music theory
goal expand harmonic vocabulary
increase expressive possibilities of harmony
historicalContext decline of functional tonality
emergence of atonal and serial techniques
influenced 20th-century harmonic practice
avant-garde music
post-tonal theory
serialism
influencedBy Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
late Romantic chromaticism
philosophicalAspect challenge to traditional aesthetic norms in music
redefinition of musical beauty
relatedConcept consonance and dissonance
pitch-class set
post-tonal music
set theory in music
timePeriod early 20th century
usedIn 20th-century chamber music
20th-century orchestral music
contemporary classical music

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Arnold Schoenberg pioneerOf emancipation of the dissonance