that person may feel motivated to somehow resolve the negative feeling that results—to restore cognitive consonance. Though a person may not always resolve cognitive dissonance, the response to ...

create entirely new patterns of consonance and dissonance. The bonang, an instrument built from a collection of small gongs and used in the powerful Javanese ensemble music gamelan, is one such ...

I do not say the dissonance is the same as the consonance. I say the comprehensibility of both is tantamount. Thus, dissonances need not be a spicy addition to dull sounds. They are natural and ...