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  2. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. [1]

  3. Consonant harmony - Wikipedia

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    Guaraní shows nasal harmony, and certain affixes have alternative forms according to whether the root includes a nasal (vowel or consonant) or not. For example, the reflexive prefix is realized as oral je- before an oral stem like juka "kill", but as nasal ñe- before a nasal stem like nupã "hit".

  4. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. [1] Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harmonic objects such as chords , textures and tonalities are identified, defined, and ...

  5. Minimal music - Wikipedia

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    Minimal music (also called minimalism) [2] [3] is a form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials. Prominent features of minimalist music include repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, consonant harmony, and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units.

  6. Triad (music) - Wikipedia

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    Functional harmony tends to rely heavily on the primary triads: triads built on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant degrees. [8] The roots of these triads are the first, fourth, and fifth degrees (respectively) of the diatonic scale, and the triads are accordingly symbolized I, IV, and V. Primary triads "express function clearly and ...

  7. Vocal harmony - Wikipedia

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    Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music , including Classical choral music and opera and in the popular styles from many Western cultures ranging from folk songs and ...

  8. Xenharmonic music - Wikipedia

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    Xenharmonic music is music that uses a tuning system that is unlike the 12-tone equal ... The fundamental consonant harmony employed is a minor triad with an added ...

  9. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    Orima: The History of Experimental Music in Northern California: On Dissonant Counterpoint by David Nicholls from his American Experimental Music: 1890–1940; Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary: Dissonant counterpoint examples and definition; Counterpointer:Software tutorial for the study of counterpoint by Jeffrey Evans