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Updated: May 21, 2025
In the words of Helmholtz,<1> consonance is a continuous, dissonance an intermittent, tone-sensation. <1> Lehre v.d. Tonempfindungen, p. 370, in 4th edition. Aside from the fact that consonance, as a psychological fact, seems positive, while this determination is negative, two very important facts can be set up in opposition.
What colors, forms, tones, emotions, ideas, favorably stimulate? What combinations of these bring to repose? All the modern studies in so-called physiological aesthetics, into the emotional and other especially motor effects of color, tone-sensation, melodic sequence, simple forms, etc., find here there proper place.
The need of such intensive understanding must excuse the more or less technical discussions in the following pages, without which no firm foundation for a theory of music could be attained. The two great factors of music are rhythm and tone-sensation, of which rhythm appears to be the more fundamental. Rhythm is defined in general as a repeating series of time intervals.
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