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B is in the key of C. It's the seventh degree of the scale. It's the seventh of the I chord and the 3rd of the V chord and more. That's not dissonant in any way
by marcan_42 5y ago
B is in the key of C. It's the seventh degree of the scale. It's the seventh of the I chord and the 3rd of the V chord and more. That's not dissonant in any way, shape or form.
Nevermind that obviously music is written in more keys than C anyway.
- snarfy 5y agoPlay a B and C together. Dissonance. It is true it's not a very good idea.
- marcan_42 5y agoA CMaj7 chord has both a B and a C in it and it sounds perfectly fine. You're saying the home chord in the key with the simplest extension is dissonant. That makes no sense. You hear music with two adjacent semitones played together all the time. It's in all jazz music and everything derived from it, which is a huge chunk of modern western music. Seriously, music isn't all just 3-note chords and a B and a C together sound perfectly fine in the right context, and even moreso when they are separated by several octaves, as in the mains hum theory.
- snarfy 5y agoJazz uses dissonance to create tension in music. Is that much different than stating it causes anxiety?