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In music, tension is the anticipation music creates in a listener's mind for relaxation or release. For example, tension may be produced through reiteration , increase in dynamic level , gradual motion to a higher or lower pitch , or (partial) syncopations between consonance and dissonance .
The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...
The equation was first proposed by French mathematician and music theorist Marin Mersenne in his 1636 work Harmonie universelle. [2] Mersenne's laws govern the construction and operation of string instruments, such as pianos and harps, which must accommodate the total tension force required to keep the strings at the proper pitch.
The first two, the "dependency locality theory" and the "expectancy theory" refer to syntactic processing in language, whereas the third one, the "tonal pitch space theory", relates to the syntactic processing in music. The language theories contribute to the concept that in order to conceive the structure of a sentence, resources are consumed.
where is the tension (in Newtons), is the linear density (that is, the mass per unit length), and is the length of the vibrating part of the string. Therefore: the shorter the string, the higher the frequency of the fundamental; the higher the tension, the higher the frequency of the fundamental
Tension (music), the perceived need for relaxation or release created by a listener's expectations Suspense, the feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions an audience perceives
The smallest pitch difference between notes (in most Western music) (e.g. F–F ♯) (Note: some contemporary music, non-Western music, and blues and jazz uses microtonal divisions smaller than a semitone) semplice Simple sempre Always sentimento Feeling, emotion sentito lit. "felt", with expression senza Without senza misura Without measure ...
Tension / release, tension / relaxation [7] [9] [17] [34] Closure, which may be used as the ending of the expectation process, [1] [35] as a group boundary, [27] or as both simultaneously [34] Expectation can also be found mentioned in relation to concepts originating from the field of information theory such as entropy.