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Original Articles

Consonance and prevalence of sonorities in Western polyphony: Roughness, harmonicity, familiarity, evenness, diatonicity

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Pages 1-20 | Received 23 May 2017, Accepted 10 May 2018, Published online: 14 Jun 2018

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