Word: norms
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...ascribed to Von Oettingen points to the fact that the consonant intervals are those which are given in the partial tones of the most pleasing musical note. In accordance with this suggestion we may suppose that habituation to this note has impressed upon the auditory sense a norm for the combination of tone, and that this expresses itself in our satisfaction in those combinations of notes which present the intervals between its partials...