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Scholars have long analyzed Biblical Hebrew poetry on a number of levels, yet consonance has received less attention than most other literary devices. Moreover, even when consonance has been studied, scholars have usually focused on consonance only at the level of the line or th…

In the late 1970s and 1980s, composer-pianist Easley Blackwood wrote a series of microtonal compositions exploring the tonal and modal behavior of a dozen non–twelve-tone equal temperaments, ranging from 13 to 24 tones per octave. This dissertation investigates a central paradox…