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

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

This dark consonance was never more clear than on Oct.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020

For example, can pharmaceutical products from India, which are in consonance with Indian and the receiving country’s laws, be seized in transit in Europe if they violate the EU’s patent laws?

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2019

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