Dissonance

[pies]

What emotions/feelings are expressed by dissonance?

[tac-tics]

I don't think any kind of sound on its own expresses any kind of emotion in isolation. It depends on a number of other things, like how the voices are moving and what the section beforehand.

[alwaystheangel]

angst, hurt, anger, jealously, pain, joy, hate, love, beauty, ugliness,

[debussy symbolism]

What emotions/feelings are expressed by dissonance?

Greetings.

What emotions do you consider with dissonance. You are asking for an exact answer whilst there is none. Only you can deside what to express by dissonance.

[ted]

The question is like asking what feelings are implied by a major chord or a minor scale.  Music is just abstract sound. We are at liberty to impose on it whatever subjective associations we choose. Therefore, it seems to me that the correct answer to your question is "whatever feelings you choose to express or register". The question also implies the necessary existence of an emotional component in the first place, which assumption, strictly speaking, is false. In other words, there exist ways of creating and listening other than the emotional.

At times there may appear to exist a commonality of response to a particular aural form. Upon closer inspection, however, most such phenomena seem ingrained by social traditions, musical training and habits of thought. What appears to be a profoundly moving melodic line to a Western ear may seem a trivial ditty to an Oriental one and vice-versa.

[ramseytheii]

What emotions/feelings are expressed by dissonance?

"Dissonances... are merely more remote consonances in the series of overtones.  Though the resemblance of the more remote overtones to the fundamental tone gradually diminishes, their comprehensibility is equal to the comprehensibility of the consonances.  Thus to the ear of today their sense-interrupting effect has disappeared."
-Arnold Schoenberg

Walter Ramsey