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
Here, we lived in our swimsuits and bathed in the sea, immersed in the consonance of land, ocean and culture that is island life.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
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
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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