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consonance

[kon-suh-nuhns] / ˈkɒn sə nəns /


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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 midway through, breakneck dissonant lines burst out; when consonance returns, it seems far more fragile.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 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

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




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