What Makes Music Sound "Bad"?

Published at : 18 Dec 2025

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This is episode 3 of the music fundamentals series!

In this segment we are very briefly exploring the concepts of consonance and dissonance, and how the sound waves of two pitches interact.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Part 1 - Who Decides?
04:23 Part 2 - Consonance
07:14 Part 3 - Dissonance

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Sources:
https://www.musical-u.com/learn/consonance-dissonance-music/#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance_and_dissonance
https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys406/sp2017/Lecture_Notes/P406POM_Lecture_Notes/P406POM_Lect8.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/art/consonance-music
https://opencurriculum.org/5566/consonance-and-dissonance/
https://www.earmaster.com/music-theory-online/ch05/chapter-5-3.html
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Music_Theory/Consonance_and_Dissonance
https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html
https://mynewmicrophone.com/fundamental-frequencies-of-musical-notes-in-a432-a440-hz/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tuning
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-3/Interference-of-Waves

Central Park in the Dark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCoOqsxLxSo&t=239s

Black Sabbath - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXnYu-Or4w

The Simpsons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqog63KOANc

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