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
Of course, if there are problems with tuning, the notes will not sound good together, but this is not what consonance and dissonance are about.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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