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
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
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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