sonances

“He also wrote on The Sensation of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, and thereby stimulated Debussy to speculate on the nature of the overtones, con - sonances, and dissonances (Fleming, pp. 683, 712).”

IMPRESSIONISM IN ART

“Descartes declined to judge the goodness of con - sonances by such a rational method, protesting that the ear prefers one or another according to the musical context rather than because of any concordance of vibrations.”

MUSIC AND SCIENCE