consonance
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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
Eilish cautions against reading any song as autobiographical, but this song — about being widely seen yet deeply lost and misunderstood — has consonance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
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
Moving from a dissonance to the consonance that is expected to follow it is called resolution, or resolving the dissonance.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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