Consonance in music, is when a combination of notes sounds pleasant. Examples of consonant intervals is music played in unison, major and minor thirds, perfect fourths and fifths, major and minor sixths, and octaves. Dissonance is a combination of notes that sound unpleasant or harsh.
Consonant harmonies are a combination of pitches in a chord which are agreeable or easy to listen to and make pleasing sounds.
Consonance is used to relieve musical tension. Certain degrees of the scale sound better when played next to each other than others. These are the consonant notes, and they help ground your ear in tonality and provide resolution for the less-consonant notes.
A consonant interval or chord is one which sounds stable and pleasant. It could, for example, be the end of a piece of music. For example: C and E sound well together, or the chord C, E and G (a C major chord). A dissonant interval or chord is one which sounds unstable.
A consonant sound is a speech sound that is produced by the partial or complete obstruction of air by the lips, teeth, tongue or throat. The Collins Dictionary defines a consonant sound as “a sound such as 'p', 'f', 'n', or 't' which you pronounce by stopping the air flowing freely through your mouth”.
Phonetically, it is easy to give definitions: a vowel is any sound with no audible noise produced by constriction in the vocal tract, and consonant is a sound with audible noise produced by a constriction. However, this definition forces us to identify as vowels many sounds which function as consonants in speech.
If vocal cords vibrate in the throat, uttering a sound, we have a voiced sound, and if vocal cords do not, the sound is unvoiced. All the vowels produced in English are voiced, while consonants are either voiced or voiceless.
Harmony in which contiguous strings of segments are affected is labeled vowel- consonant harmony. This type of local harmony involves vowels and consonants and can be triggered by either. Three main types are outlined: nasal harmony, emphasis harmony, and retroflex harmony.
Consonants "clarify the message that the vowels carry." They quickly start, stop, or blend between vowel sounds. When pronounced, some consonants use the vocal cords ("voiced") and some do not ("non-voiced").
Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words is called internal alliteration. Repetition of vowel sounds is called assonance. Consonance is a repetition of consonant sounds. Example: A sable, silent, solemn forest stood (James Thomson, "The Castle of Indolence").
The Collins Dictionary defines a consonant sound as “a sound such as 'p', 'f', 'n', or 't' which you pronounce by stopping the air flowing freely through your mouth”.
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