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Definition of Consonance
1. Noun. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words.
2. Noun. The property of sounding harmonious.
Generic synonyms: Harmony
Derivative terms: Consonant, Consonate, Harmonious
Definition of Consonance
1. n. Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
Definition of Consonance
1. Noun. (prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance. ¹
2. Noun. (music) harmony; agreement; lack of discordance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consonance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consonance
Literary usage of Consonance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"MEASUREMENT OF THE SENSE OF consonance Procedure. If we grant that this order of
ranking from consonance to dissonance is in accord with the definition of ..."
2. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"consonance, DISSONANCE, AND INTERCHANGE. The Musical Meaning of the Term ...
In music, from which the term consonance is taken, those tones are said to ..."
3. Music (1897)
"The question of the agreeable, or disagreeable, effect of an interval is not the
whole ground of the distinction between consonance and dissonance. ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy: Based on the Traité de Physique by Augustin Privat-Deschanel, Joseph David Everett (1897)
"The combination of two or more notes, when agreeable, is called concord or
consonance; when disagreeable, discord or dissonance. The distinction is found to ..."
5. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"Genesis of the Major consonance, Music's First Regnant Harmony THE fundamental
forms of tone are dissonance and consonance. Both are products of feeling, ..."
6. Contributions to a Psychological Theory of Music by Max Friedrich Meyer (1901)
""consonance," not any of the other terms above mentioned, which are more or less
ambiguous. The word "dissonance," commonly used by musicians, ..."
7. How to Understand Music: A Concise Course in Musical Intelligence and Taste by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1881)
"They demonstrate that whenever and wherever it is potential in a relation the
efficient accent makes for a regnant consonance, that is, ..."
8. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"consonance AND DISSONANCE. 20. As has been seen, the most intimate intervals are
the unison, octave and perfect fifth (par.). The other interval-relations ..."
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