Sentence examples for * consonance from inspiring English sources

You can use these definitions to define consonance and dissonance objectively, but most Westerners know instantly whether a sound is consonant or dissonant and they prefer consonance.

Compare assonance; consonance.

There was little consonance.

But its overriding purpose is consonance.

Mr. Lansky relishes tonality and consonance.

Assonance, consonance: internal rhyme, it's beautiful.

Frank Kermode, describing that coming together, uses the term "consonance".

These suddenly smudged images of consonance and peace.

For all their thematic consonance, they are startlingly different novels.

Eighteenth-century composers, for example, played with the relationship between dissonance and consonance, dissonance creating a tension which is then released, to gratifying effect, by a consonance.

The imitating voices are sometimes transfigured: intervals are inverted, ferocious dissonance becomes delicate consonance.