Soaring, dissonant noises begin each song, forming a solid backbone for pretty, tinkling guitars and grinding swirls of feedback. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Not doing well results in dissonant silence or an intentionally dissonant interruption. From Wordnik.com. [Music Sweet Music] Reference
Thus, any music that doesn't manifest a recognizable emotion (by implication at least, all of "dissonant" modernist music) couldn't be music. From Wordnik.com. [Music] Reference
It's asinine that The New York Times describes Esther as "dissonant," negatively, as if in sympathy with those critizing the decision to stage the work. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Acts of Opera] Reference
He wrote music that was very angular and dissonant. From Wordnik.com. [Copland: Early Music From America's Composer] Reference
This one sounds a little rawer, more dissonant, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [Death Cab's Latest Will 'Possess Your Heart'] Reference
Another peal of dissonant laughter interrupted the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
¶ This séemeth dissonant from the report of Fabian deriued out of Gagwine. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV] Reference
Incidentally, I stumbled on that word because discord, what you mean is dissonant. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
So but yes, it's dissonant because what's going on in Sweeney's head is dissonant. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
Of disagreeable visage, he said these harsh words in a broken and dissonant voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The band has created a more dramatic and dissonant setting for Chesnutt's dark songs. From Wordnik.com. [Songs Of Survival And Reflection: 'At The Cut'] Reference
The chittering whispers and sepulchral resonances are your own dissonant reverberations. From Wordnik.com. [The Astigmatism Of The Human Genome Project] Reference
And especially on this record, we've kind of extended the kind of dissonant angle of it. From Wordnik.com. [Portishead Masters Audio Glue on 'Third' Album] Reference
He means a form of dissonant cadence known as a "Chinese seventh", rather than a meal break. From Wordnik.com. [The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project – and smile!] Reference
But Obama has made a point of declaring that he wants dissonant voices in his administration. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing Stiglitz] Reference
Then the Danavas there began to sound thousands of musical instruments, dissonant and of odd shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
There's a consonant chord and a dissonant chord going on at the same time, one right after the other. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
GROSS: Yeah, in the chords in that famous part of the "Psycho" score are very, like, dissonant violin. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) GROSS: And this is a much more, like, march-like and in some parts dissonant song. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Theo Bleckmann Dwells In Possibility] Reference
It produced comparatively little foundation tone and a powerful chord of harmonics, many of them dissonant. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
But it is both notable and certain that in a lyric measure the very same inversion does not seem unpleasantly dissonant. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The new music, however, strident with the echoes of industrialism, dissonant with the tumult of great cities, repelled her. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
"Then you hear Bach next to it, and he sounds just as modern certainly more dissonant than if you heard an all-Bach evening.". From Wordnik.com. [The More Melodies, the Merrier] Reference
You might have seen bands of Goths shouting with dissonant cries and paying the honors of death while the battle still raged. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference
They received his speech joyfully, with chantings, and terrible din, and many dissonant shouts, after the manner of barbarians. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Presently the barbarians patrolling around the walls in troops, they heard their yells and the dissonant clangour of their arms. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
He bobbed his head, fingered the track-pad on his Mac-Book, and hammered out the occasional heavy, dissonant chord on his guitar. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Fennesz at The Mansion at Strathmore] Reference
McCARTHY: Babies can recognize surprisingly complex rhythms, and are sensitive to the differences between melodic and dissonant music. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Up Baby, As Music Lovers Might] Reference
Our sound wasn't anything anyone hadn't heard before — a few rabble-rousing guitars, a pedestrian off-beat drum, our voices strained into a dissonant falsetto. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Name Buttons] Reference
Kendrick's music is just as edgy as his attitude -- peppered with dissonant clusters and off-the-changes melody lines, punctuated by crashes from his powerful left hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Bodacious New Voice From Jazz's Far Side] Reference
A dissonant painting exhibition that has feyly pop-ish painters Katharina Wulff and Andrew Kerr playing off a small borrowed-from-a-museum work by Max Ernst ends June 21. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Alternative] Reference
But in the excerpt we'll play, you'll hear me play basically a standard funk groove to set it up, but a little bit more dissonant than you would find on a funkadelic record. From Wordnik.com. [Haimovitz And Burleson: A Classic 'Odd Couple'] Reference
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