Garland divided the consonances into perfect, imperfect and middle--a system which has remained in use, with slight alteration, to the present day.
These tones are the roots of the consonances sounding, and Tartini directed the attention of his pupils to them as a guide to correct intonation in double stops, since they do not occur unless the intonation is pure.
The general principle that any dissonance is admissible when smoothly placed between two consonances is a fundamental law of modern counterpoint.
The Perfect consonances are the Unison, Fifth, and Octave.
After the first measure it is better to use imperfect consonances only.
The Imperfect consonances are the Major and Minor Thirds and Sixths.
The teachers of harmony compare the sounds and consonances which are heard only, and their labour, like that of the astronomers, is in vain.
By harmonic numbers Timaeus means those that are proportional to those representing the consonances of the musical scale.
The consonances man introduces into nature will follow him wherever he goes.
Well-bred instinct meets reason half-way, and is prepared for the consonances that may follow.
For nothing gives greater offence to the hearer, though ignorant of the cause of it, than those rapid, piercing beats of high and loud sounds, which make imperfect consonances with one another.
Sauveur regards the simplicity of the ratios obtaining between the rates of vibration of consonances as something universally known.
It will be seen, however, that according to his view all distant intervals must necessarily be consonances and all near intervals dissonances.
The most perfect consonances are the octave and the twelfth, since in these two cases the overtones of the one sound coincide absolutely with those of the other.
Sauveur's theory, however, does not take into account the fact that clangs, or musical sounds generally, are composite and that the disturbance in the consonances of distant intervals principally arise from the beats of the overtones.
He always slipped off from the right key and struck consonances where dissonances stood written on the score, and vice versa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consonances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
