William Sethares developed a model of consonance and dissonance based around alignment of harmonics (or partials; it generalizes to inharmonic sounds). Origina

William Sethares developed a model of consonance and dissonance based around alignment of harmonics (or partials; it generalizes to inharmonic sounds). Original paper: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf Informal explanation: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html