Tag: Dissonace

• Dissonance

  March 9, 2015

  Chamber music, String Quartet

  Dissonace, K.465, Mozart, string quartet

  The last of the ‘Haydn’ Quartets [K.465 in C] has a nickname: Dissonance. Why? Well, look at and listen to the introduction to the first movement, below. Mozart: String Quartets (DG Collectors Edition), Hagen Quartet The eye is bewildered by all those accidentals – flats, sharps, naturals everywhere – and the ear! The poor ear, for the…