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
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
Suspensions were a favorite expressive device in the Baroque era, created when one of two voices moves a step, creating a temporary dissonance that is resolved when the other voice follows suit, restoring consonance.
From New York Times • May 26, 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
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