Bibliographic citations
Percca, R., (2022). Discursos en el rock alternativo: El uso de las disonancias en los grupos Nirvana y Speedy Ortiz [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667662
Percca, R., Discursos en el rock alternativo: El uso de las disonancias en los grupos Nirvana y Speedy Ortiz [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667662
@misc{renati/404735,
title = "Discursos en el rock alternativo: El uso de las disonancias en los grupos Nirvana y Speedy Ortiz",
author = "Percca Carbajal, Renato Alexander",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2022"
}
This research provides musical analysis and transcriptions focused on the use of dissonance by the bands Nirvana and Speedy Ortiz, as well as the review of different theories and studies on dissonance, rock and the two mentioned groups. Dissonance is a musical phenomenon whose academic study has been surrounded by some controversy, while alternative rock has little analysis and musical transcription, especially contemporary alternative rock. For this reason, this study tries to find similarities and differences between the uses of dissonance present in the music of the alternative rock groups Nirvana and Speedy Ortiz, since in this way it contributes to the knowledge of the ways in which dissonances are used. in a classic alternative rock group (Nirvana, 1987 - 1994) and in a more recent or contemporary one (Speedy Ortiz, 2011 - 2017). To carry out the research, academic sources were consulted and, in addition, the musical pieces were listened to carefully so that later, with the help of musical instruments, such as the guitar, and the Noteflight musical notation program, transcriptions were made that allow the analysis of the dissonances on these issues. As a result, it was not only found that there are too frequent and constant uses of dissonance throughout most of the songs of these groups, such as dissonant intervals in main riffs or guitar solos; but there are also less recurring but still important and curious uses, such as the use of free improvisation sections, unintelligible notes, too many notes and chords out of key, chromatic ascending melodies, voice intervention in dissonances, among others. Some of these uses appeared in the music of both groups, while others only appeared in one of them.
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