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

The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 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