dissonance

How To Use dissonance In A Sentence

• Melancholic melody, harmony, subtle dissonance, throat vibrato and asymmetric rhythms make up their choral, ‘a cappella’ style.
• He carried the splashy, two-fisted style of great New Orleans pianists like Professor Longhair toward modern-jazz dissonance, then back toward propulsive barrelhouse; he sang the lyrics, but only after he had whooped and scat-sung, from baritone to falsetto. Jazzfest: “Thank God I Made It” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
• Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
• Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
• Thus the totality of intervals is thought of as a graduated structure leading from unitas via the perfect and imperfect assonances to the dissonances and nonharmonic rela - tionships. MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART
• Most of all, he shows a flair for matching the climaxes in the action with musical climaxes, using dissonance, the singer's virtuosity, or instrumental sonorities to create the sense of heightened emotion.
• Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
• Much of its punch derives from new-minted, surprising chord progressions and pungent dissonance, an idiom Barber carries to the end of the setting.
• the resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance
• Of course, the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem.