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Pairs of mediants with higher contrastiveness than 50% tend to sound more dissonant against the fifth or root than lower-contrastiveness mediants, and extremely low-contrastiveness mediants may not sound distinct from each other. Higher contrastiveness enables "cross-tonality", where both mediants in the pair can be played at once in the same chord, as in suspended or [[Arto and tendo theory|arto/tendo]] chords.
 
Pairs of mediants with higher contrastiveness than 50% tend to sound more dissonant against the fifth or root than lower-contrastiveness mediants, and extremely low-contrastiveness mediants may not sound distinct from each other. Higher contrastiveness enables "cross-tonality", where both mediants in the pair can be played at once in the same chord, as in suspended or arto/tendo chords.


Here is a table of the contrastiveness of mediants up to 50% in various EDOs:
Here is a table of the contrastiveness of mediants up to 50% in various EDOs: