On musical dissonance

Music Perception

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-35

  Johnson Laird, Phil N ^a   Kang, Olivia E ^b   Leong, Yuan Chang ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consonance; Dissonance; Harmony; Sensory roughness; Tonality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865709646     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2012.30.1.19     Document Type: Article

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