Measuring Musical Consonance and Dissonance

• Autores: Michael C. LoPresto
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 53, Nº. 4, 2015, pág. 225
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Most combinations of musical tones are perceived as either consonant, “pleasing” to the human ear, or dissonant, which is “not pleasing.” Despite being largely subjective in nature, sensations of consonance and dissonance can be quantified and then compared to the judgments of human subjects. The following is a description of several simple studies that can be carried out in the classroom of a physics of music or science of sound course.