Consonance and dissonance
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"Who of us has not dreamed, on ambitious days, of the miracle of a poetic prose: musical, without rhythm or rhyme; adaptable enough and discordant enough to conform to the lyrical movements of the soul, the waves of revery, the jolts of consciousness?" --À Arsène Houssaye" (1869) by Charles Baudelaire |
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In music, a consonance (Latin com-, "with" + sonare, "to sound") is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance (Latin dis-, "apart" + sonare, "to sound") — considered unstable (or temporary, transitional). The strictest definition of consonance may be only those sounds which are pleasant, while the most general definition includes any sounds which are used freely.
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See also
- Cognitive dissonance
- Chord factor
- Disharmony
- Dissonant counterpoint
- Incongruity
- Limit (music)
- Phonoaesthetics
- Semitone
- Beat (acoustics)
- String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart), nicknamed Dissonance
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