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https://newmusicusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/13edoKeyboard-scaled.jpg2560725You can throw most of the harmony lessons you’ve ever had right out the window when composing xenharmonic music. Dissonance is just as important as consonance. Any tuning can just as easily sound ugly or exotic or beautiful. In musician speak, if it’s close enough for rock’n’roll, it will sound in tune!