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IN his interesting letter Mr. Gray has put forward the theory that dissonances, which he assumes to be constant in harshness whatever their contexts, may be masked or softened by the pleasure of the musical experience of their anticipated resolution, when heard by a man whose training enables him to make that anticipation.
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PICKFORD, R. Relation between Dissonance and Context. Nature 152, 570 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152570b0
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