Many musical styles involve multiple performers playing or singing simultaneously1,2,3. In Western music, this practice is underwritten by the notion of harmony, defining how multiple musical tones may be combined together into polyphonic sonorities or chords. To a given listener, certain chords will sound particularly pleasant, or consonant, while others will sound relatively unpleasant, or disso
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