Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

ACCORDING to Helmholtz's well-known theory 1, the consonance or dissonance of a chord depends on the extent to which its component fundamental tones and their overtones produce beats. Even a cursory ...

Abstract: The perception of musical consonance/dissonance (C/D) relies on basic properties of the auditory system, and prior investigations have shown that C/D sounds elicit strongly divergent ...

On May 9, the Dearborn Symphony took the stage at Ford Community & Performing Arts Center to perform their season finale, a program called “Fantasia Favorites.” True to the name, the program consisted ...

1 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States 2 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada ...

If you never had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Joy De Gruy speak, you have not checked off every item on your educational bucket list. She wrote a book in 2005 that is still relevant today; in fact ...

“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930,” the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhilarating immersion in the spark and ensuing conflagration of modern European abstraction, transforms Frank ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consonance Capital Partners, a leading U.S.-based healthcare private equity firm, today announced that it has added health care leaders Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH and Robert ...

IN the course of a re-perusal of Helmholtz's “Ton-empfindungen,” it occurred to me to compare the theory of consonance and dissonance, there propounded, with the exposition of that theory presented in ...