the melody beautifully, but some of which chafe against it, leaving us listeners to wonder what the Composer is doing. (Often, of course, we cause the dissonance, and he is simply waiting for the right time to heal it.) Then the melody returns, cutting through the cacophony and bringing a temporary sense of resolution. To someone who has never heard the piece before, it could even sound like it has been fully resolved and is about to finish (a new reader of the Bible could easily think the tension