Questions about the Consonance & Dissonance poster

What’s on the Consonance & Dissonance poster?

16 entries in 4 groups. Roughly from most restful to most tense. Perfect consonance: Unison, Octave, Perfect 5th; Imperfect consonance: Major 3rd, Minor 3rd, Major 6th, Minor 6th; Dissonance: Perfect 4th (context-dependent), Major 2nd, Minor 7th, Major 7th, Minor 2…; In practice: Dissonance resolves by step, The tritone in V7 resolves inward to I, A p…. The perfect 4th is consonant between upper voices and dissonant against the bass. Context decides.

Who is the Consonance & Dissonance poster for?

Consonance & Dissonance belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Consonance & Dissonance poster?

Dissonance is not a mistake. It is what makes the resolution mean something. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Consonance & Dissonance belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Consonance & Dissonance?

Borrowed Chords, Cadences and Building Chords sit alongside Consonance & Dissonance in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Borrowed ChordsCadencesBuilding Chords

Is the Consonance & Dissonance poster free to download and print?

Yes. Consonance & Dissonance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Consonance & Dissonance poster print at?

Consonance & Dissonance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Consonance & Dissonance loses nothing.Printing guide