consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance...

Consonance is a form of rhyme involving the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different (e.g.,...

affecting change, the resultant mental stress restores psychological consonance to the person by misperception, rejection, or refutation of the contradiction...

The North/South Consonance Ensemble is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music from the Americas. It...

Tonality and provided a formalization of consonance. Among the earliest musical traditions, musical consonance was thought to arise in a quasi-mystical...

In Search of Perfect Consonance (Chinese: 尋找完美第五度) is a 2016 Hong Kong short documentary film directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Ruby Yang. Released...

its perception in large part consists of recognizing and processing consonance, a concept whose precise definition has varied throughout history, but...

Blow wind, swell billow and swim bark! — Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 5.1 Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds across words which have been deliberately...

perfect consonance. Contrary motion should dominate. Perfect consonances must be approached by oblique or contrary motion. Imperfect consonances may be...

the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one). Dissonance, resolution, and suspense...

Russian statesman Alexander Gorchakov justified the Russian expansion in consonance of the Manifest destiny of the United States; thereafter, the Russian...

the founder and CEO of the New York-based healthcare investment firm, Consonance Capital, and a former Executive Partner of J.P. Morgan Partners. He is...

{\;2^{7}\ }{\;5^{3}}}\ } (play)). The major third is classed as an imperfect consonance and is considered one of the most consonant intervals after the unison...

intervals begins with absolute consonance (1 to 1) and gradually progresses into an infinitude of dissonance, the consonance of the intervals decreasing...

Otonality and utonality are terms introduced by Harry Partch to describe chords whose pitch classes are the harmonics or subharmonics of a given fixed...

decomposition yields3·5,2·2·3,2·5. The consonance value computes to (3+5+1+1+3+1+5)/3 = 19/3 = 6,33. As the consonance value for the lower reference tone...

affecting vowels, whereas, when affecting consonants, it is generally called consonance. The two types are often combined, as between the words six and switch...

(not to be confused with inversion). Intervals may be ranked by relative consonance and dissonance. As such ratios with lower integers are generally more...

letter yogh – ȝ – pronounced like the y in yarrow or the j in Jotunheim). Consonance is a broader literary device involving the repetition of consonant sounds...

guitar. Open tunings allow one-finger chords to be played with greater consonance than do other tunings, which use equal temperament, at the cost of increasing...

In literature and writing, stylistic devices are a variety of techniques used to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling. A figure of speech is any...

consonant, and were traditionally classified as mediocre consonances, imperfect consonances, or near-dissonances. Within a diatonic scale all unisons...

'diabolus in musica', was regarded as an unstable interval and rejected as a consonance" (Sadie, Stanley [1980]. "Tritone", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music...

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (lit. 'New Consonance Improvisation Group'), also known as The Group or Il Gruppo, was an avant-garde free improvisation...

another point. So a unison is only the beginning of consonance or interval; it is neither consonance nor interval, for like the point it is incapable of...

In music theory, a minor chord is a chord that has a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord comprises only these three notes, it is called...

opening is "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". The major sixth is one of the consonances of common practice music, along with the unison, octave, perfect fifth...

lenient punishment. To resolve all doubts in favour of the accused is in consonance with the principle of presumption of innocence. The main principle in...

experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality...

with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships. There is also a body of theory...