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Definition of Consonances
1. consonance [n] - See also: consonance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consonances
Literary usage of Consonances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"Hence it follows that in general the consonances of two clarinets have but little
definition, and must be proportionately agreeable. ..."
2. Intervals, Chords and Ear Training for Young Pianoforte Students by Jean Parkman Brown (1897)
"The perfect and major intervals and the intervals formed from these, the minor,
diminished, and augmented intervals, are classed as consonances or ..."
3. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, A. M. (Alistair Matheson) Duncan, Eric J. Aiton, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"The origin of melodic interval! in consonances. consonances are compared with
each other, each originating from its own basic principles. ..."
4. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"The complete table of consonances and dissonances is therefore as follows:
consonances Dissonances Perfect octaves, and their inversions, perf. unisons; ..."
5. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"The binary combinations called consonances are seven in number:— the octave, the
fifth, the fourth, ..."
6. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"The binary combinations called consonances are seven in number:— the octave, the
fifth, the fourth, the major and minor thirds, and the major and minor ..."
7. Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy: Addressed to a by Leonhard Euler, John Griscom, David Brewster (1833)
"Of other consonances. IT may be affirmed, that the relations of 1 to 2, of 1 to
4, of 1 to 8, of 1 to 16, which we have hitherto considered, ..."
8. Musical Pitch and the Measurement of Intervals Among the Ancient Greeks by Charles William Leverett Johnson (1896)
"This fact, that the Tone is the difference of the two important consonances, the
Fifth and the Fourth, has given this dissonant interval a prominent place ..."
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