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Name: Consonance and Dissonance
ID: m11953
Language: English (en)
Summary: Consonance and dissonance are musical terms describing whether combinations of notes sound good together or not.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: chords, consonance, consonant, dissonance, dissonant, interval, music, tuning
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.9 (history)
First publication date: May 17, 2004 3:03 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Oct 4, 2007 10:13 am GMT-5
Module XML: m11953_1.9.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.9 Oct 4, 2007 10:13 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
updated links
Version: 1.8 Mar 7, 2007 11:37 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added outline svg and eps files
Version: 1.7 Sep 5, 2006 2:47 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Small text changes.  Added missing words to "dissonant intervals" figure.
Version: 1.6 Feb 1, 2006 12:40 pm US/Central by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Fixed document/@id so that course publishing would create correct page references.
Version: 1.5 Jan 31, 2006 5:42 pm US/Central by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Uploaded fixed EPS files.
Version: 1.4 Jan 31, 2006 2:35 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Minor text and figure changes
Version: 1.3 Jan 24, 2006 1:56 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
updated figures
Version: 1.2 May 28, 2004 2:53 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added links
Version: 1.1 May 20, 2004 10:18 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module

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