In music, tension is the perceived need for relaxation or release created by a listener's expectations. For example, dissonance may give way to consonance. Tension may also be produced through reiteration or gradual motion to a higher pitch (DeLone, et al. 1975, p.290). Allegory of Music on the Opéra Garnier Music is an art form that involves organised sounds and silence. ... In music, a consonance (Latin consonare, sounding together) is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance, which is considered unstable. ... Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ...

See also: Conclusion (music). In music, the conclusion is the ending of a composition and may take the form of a coda or outro. ...

Source

• DeLone et al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-049346-5.