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

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions...

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

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

the dominant. David Cope considers key, consonance and dissonance (relaxation and tension, respectively), and hierarchical relationships the three most...

cultural environment. Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord) Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate...

considered interesting and dynamic consonances along with their inverses the sixths, but in medieval times they were considered dissonances unusable in a stable...

a balance between consonance and dissonance. This occurs when there is a balance between "tense" and "relaxed" moments. Dissonance is an important part...

the chapter "John Cage and the Theory of Harmony" in Writings about John Cage, and the book A History of Consonance and Dissonance, among others. Tenney's...

listening to the sounds of four blacksmith's hammers, which produced consonance and dissonance when they were struck simultaneously. According to Nicomachus...

of Consonance and Dissonance") is a 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was printed in Rome by Ludovico Grignani: xxxiii  and dedicated...

strength, consonance, or stability (see consonance and dissonance) is determined by its approximation to a lower and stronger, or higher and weaker, position...

(ASMR) Consonance and dissonance Gamelan tuning Heterodyne Moiré pattern, a form of spatial interference that generates new frequencies. Music and sleep...

lines, and culminating in the advanced exercises of imitative partimenti and partimento fugues. Music is composed of consonances and dissonances. The four...

a chord is a group of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance. The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it...

unpleasant, chaotic, and often discordant; these sounds are perhaps meaningless and jumbled together. This is similar to consonance and dissonance in music, which...

of the planets and their distances from the sun. Book three focuses on defining musical harmonies, including consonance and dissonance, intervals (including...

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

one and one-half (3:2) that of the open string (not to be confused with inversion). Intervals may be ranked by relative consonance and dissonance. As...

 3425 Hz  and  3426 Hz  would beat once per second, since   | 3425 Hz − 3426 Hz |  =  1 Hz . The difference between consonance and dissonance is not clearly...

especially dissonant relative to the harmony implied by the root chord, and is thus better avoided. In major-key tonality the avoid note is the fourth...

needed] Some argue further that they are not dissonances, but consonances higher up the harmonic series and thus more complex.[citation needed] The musicologist...

quarter of the beat; the skip from the dissonance must be a descending third to a consonance; and this consonance must be followed by some number of ascending...

bridge, so that various intervals can be compared to each other [consonance and dissonance]." A "bichord instrument" is one, "having two strings in unison...

The Lipps–Meyer law, named for Theodor Lipps (1851–1914) and Max Friedrich Meyer (1873–1967), hypothesizes that the closure of melodic intervals is determined...

Fibonacci-derived groupings of expression parameters, "modulating" between consonance and dissonance. This technique appears most clearly in her Ten Preludes for Solo...

concords and discords, the proper succession of Consonance and dissonance, musical modes, cadences, composed versus improvised counterpoint, and proper...

tunings and just tunings is differences in acoustical beat when two notes are sounded together, which affects the subjective experience of consonance and dissonance...

natural overtones. As music becomes more complex, dissonance becomes indistinguishable from consonance. In the latter part of the 19th century, composers...

Cross. Robert John Russell has examined consonance and dissonance between modern physics, evolutionary biology, and Christian theology. Christian philosophers...