In a Music Theory Workshop, less than a Decade ago...

Using the text written by the Head of the Music Department Himself (a devout Schenkerian), we were being asked to consider consonant intervals as "the building blocks of music."  I raised my hand:

"You know, the reason all arguments by analogy are false is that they call things by the names of things they aren't."

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Could we, please, just say that consonant intervals have greater resonance than dissonant intervals?"