consonance

How To Use consonance In A Sentence

• Mews your name, life's heart consonance Splendor Fantasy!
• Such a commission can assist those agencies and ensure that their powers are in consonance with the laws and practices of Hong Kong, he said.
• Although the sense of hearing recognizes consonances, reason weighs their value.
• Read Roger: An object lesson in metaphorical consonance An object lesson in metaphorical consonance
• But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather. The Hills of Hingham
• The whole texture resonates with lovely aerated consonances, especially major thirds.
• For music to be beautiful, the voices must not only be true, clear, and distinct from one another, but also united together in such a way that there may arise a just consonance and harmony which is not unfitly termed a discordant harmony or rather harmonious discord. Treatise on the Love of God
• It is important to emphasise that changes in economic circumstances may again make it necessary to take appropriate monetary measures, which may not be in consonance with the present easy liquidity conditions.
• Certainly it is the ambition of most philosophical systems to resolve the blooming confusion of the world into consonance.
• The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances. Why are minor keys in music sad?