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

Here, we lived in our swimsuits and bathed in the sea, immersed in the consonance of land, ocean and culture that is island life.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

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

This dark consonance was never more clear than on Oct.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020

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