Concept
Consecutive fifths
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Consonance and dissonance
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability, although there is broad acknowledgement that this depends also on familiarity and musical expertise. The terms form a structural dichotomy in which they define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant, and a dissonance is what is not consonant.
Musique classique
thumb|250px|Une vingtaine de compositeurs de musique classique, parmi les plus importants couvrant la période du .(De gauche à droite, de haut en bas : — Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Sébastien Bach, Georg Friedrich Haendel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven — Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi — Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski, Antonín Dvořák — Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Sergueï Rachmaninov, George Gershwin, Aram Khatchatourian.
Perfect fourth
A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth () is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones). For example, the ascending interval from C to the next F is a perfect fourth, because the note F is the fifth semitone above C, and there are four staff positions between C and F. Diminished and augmented fourths span the same number of staff positions, but consist of a different number of semitones (four and six, respectively).
Harmonie
vignette|upright=1|Harmoniques En musique, lharmonie est le fait que divers sons perçus ensemble concordent ou vont bien ensemble : par exemple, lorsque la musique jouée par plusieurs instruments semble harmonieuse. Dans la théorie de la musique occidentale, l'art de l'harmonie étudie la construction des accords, les principes qui les gouvernent et leurs enchaînements. On parle alors de l'aspect « vertical » (instruments simultanés) de la musique par opposition à la dimension « horizontale » (mélodie).