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consonance

[kon-suh-nuhns] / ˈkɒn sə nəns /


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"When we use instruments like the bonang, Pythagoras's special numbers go out the window and we encounter entirely new patterns of consonance and dissonance," Dr Harrison said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

But most of all it takes him to his childhood home kitchen, where he'd often watch his grandmother make tepache, fine-tuned to consonance with cinnamon and black pepper.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

And yet it would be easier to find a billy goat on an expressway than locate anyone in SoHo who still lives the way Ms. Rockburne does — in perfect consonance with creative purity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021

This dark consonance was never more clear than on Oct.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020

But consonance and dissonance do also have a strong physical basis in nature.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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