And who decide which is good and which is bad? Just an example: For me, shellfish is bad, but for most people I know they are divine. OTOH, for me chocolat is divine, as is for the most people I know. Yet, I knew a person who said she don't like chocolat. One of my favorite dishes is "cabidela", which is basically chicken rice cooked with the chicken blood added, mixed with vinegar. I bet for the majority of people here this would suck.zethus909 wrote:it's really simple. good dissonance sounds GOOD.And dissonance would be a much better understood notion, and this kind of question would never arise.
BAD dissonance, gives you a headache.
If some music gives you a headache, by all means, don't listen to it. Contemporary music is not easy, it requires an involvement from the listener, and a knowedge that comes with evolving through the music of romantic period, through the late romantics, expressionists (and impressionists too, although these followed a different path) and then the post-war serial music. You must walk down this way to fully understand this type of music