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To me music is a series of moving strands interwoven into strings, threads, and ropes depending on the complexity of the counterpoint and voicing. For example a symphony is a rope being weaved together, a string quartet is a thread or string, and a solo piece is a dancing strand. The important...

If you knew the names of the chords you might be able to infer the voicing, which may help when learning to play the piece, but what use is that when writing or listening to the piece? (5)

However the voicing and or movement of and/or between the chords can lead there to being more chords. Yet, naming the chord does little help outside of giving each chord a name. It in itself is not the voicing, it is not the thread(s) that make up the chord, nor the movement. (4)

Dissonance and consonance come from how far apart those threads in the string are in a moment. Let us look at a different example, imagine a piano piece with melody in the right hand and a series of chords in the left. How many strands then would make up the string? That would depend on the...

To me, a chord can be seen as one note or multiple notes depending on how many voices are used in the chord. For example, while not impossible, it is rare for a wood quartet to have more than four voices. Each voice of the quartet creates a thread of motion, the threads are then weaved together...