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.
Of course, the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem.
The dissonance between the winterish associations of oranges at home, and the soft, warm evening air in San José was as pleasant as anything I can remember, surfacing an idle longing for clove-studded peel drying in the stove, for chilled orange segments with Medjoul dates, ginger and clotted cream and slow mornings of coffee and oranges. Coffee and Oranges
Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance. The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
They keep these worlds separate and tend to compartmentalize any dissonance they might feel.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
The second scherzo-like movement had syncopated, imitative strokes between the piano and oboe, with pouncing dissonances and pizzicato obbligati on the strings. Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony.
Much of its punch derives from new-minted, surprising chord progressions and pungent dissonance, an idiom Barber carries to the end of the setting.
Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance, an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.
As such dissonance is healed, the opportunity for a recovery can come forth.
The same bizarre intellectual dissonance emanates from 'brights' when they start prattling on about the probable, in their view, unintentional origin and nature of codes (for even Morse code is, on their view, simply part of the materialist's natural continuum, minds being naturally evolved brains and all, dontchaknow). Bits and Pieces of an RNA World
Now, I hated that movie, but I love me some Dennis Hopper, so that creates what we call a wee bit o 'dissonance. Dead Things ON Sticks
But art history with its Hegelian roots has long been multifaceted and tensive; its dissonance is its strength.
The Dems 'video montage contrasted with the Republicans' message of the day - that they were hard at work on bipartisan financial reform - with absurdest dissonance, like a Jon Stewart montage showing Dick Cheney saying Saddam had reconstituted his WMD program - right after a clip of Cheney saying the exact opposite. DVR Democracy Comes of Age: Or, How Jon Stewart May Have Saved Financial Reform & the Senate Dems
There is little dissonance beyond frequent major seconds (next-door notes).
As millenarians they are prone to get seduced quite easily into an ends justifying the means approach which, allied with large doses of cognitive dissonance, lead to some remarkable statements.
This cognitive dissonance bewilders the countries we like to believe admire us and our way of life. Barbara Crafton: The Death Penalty Is America's Blind Spot
The earliest method was to derive a contratenor altus from the written discantus by singing the same notes simultaneously at the 4th below, which produced essentially a chain of what would now be called 6-3 chords, varied and punctuated by single 8-5 chords, though with some decorative passing notes and suspensions, particularly at cadences, and on occasion more licentious dissonances. Archive 2008-02-01
Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
In the absence of vibratory media the noises of the reef are isolated. furtive, echoless — staccato accidentals and dull dissonances out of tune with the soothing theme of the sea. My Tropic Isle
The first of these is the pedal, typically a sustaining or reiteration of a note in the bass while harmonies change above it, creating dissonance with the bass in the process.
Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance, an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.
That is a perfect description of an elaborate contrapuntal texture with ‘emancipated dissonance’.
Of course, the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem.
Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
Penrose's device offers a way for anyone to see the harmony and dissonance that musicians can readily hear.
It's another example of how Ives associated dissonance and technical demands with masculinity, overcoming challenges, and prowess on the baseball field.
Anna had realized that for most people on Erde, even players, the term harmony had a far more general meaning in Liedwahr " something akin to "not creating dissonance" rather than the earthly technical musical meaning of parallel chords or supporting lines of music distinct from the melody line. The Spellsong War
A perpetual fire of fulminating balls would bang from under the feet of the faithful; odors of impure assafoetida would mingle with the fumes of the incense; and wicked drinking choruses would rise up along with the holy canticles, in hideous dissonance, reminding one of the old orgies under the reign of the The Paris Sketch Book
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For an example, have a look at my report of this classic study of cognitive dissonance.
Morrison and MacLachlan play their dissonance not for guffaws but for rather rueful observational comedy.
The phenomenon - known as "backfire" - is "a natural defense mechanism to avoid that cognitive dissonance. Boston.com Top Stories
Carefully wrought dissonances, angular folk tunes, sudden shifts in dynamics, dense layers of spectral drones, slabs of noise, topped off with Dagmar's strange, elastic Sprechstimme; these are the tools of the Bears' trade.
Even the introductory toccata-flourishes are at moderate speed and relatively sober in mien: while the succeeding fugato, though marked allegro, is in four severely interlocked parts that generate often acute dissonances.
My brain locks up in one of those cognitive dissonance moments – why is this beautiful creature hawking donuts at six in the morning to all these walking cadavers? DONUTS OF THE LIVING DEAD • by Aaron Polson
Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.
Grainger also intensifies dissonance from the normal ‘melody’ instruments and draws an acidic sound from the winds, by emphasizing the double reeds.
Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
City" is sometimes described as atonal, but perhaps "supertonal" might be a better term, it seems to exist in every key and every tempo at the same: great, towering, unresolved dissonances the size of the Chrysler building are constructed right in front of you and then tumble to the ground "watch out for flying glass! The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids
There is an apparent dissonance or disjunction in her work, but this comes from a novel meshing of seemingly discontinuous or unconnected themes and problems.
The key early figures in the development of the Chicago avant-garde -- pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, saxophonist Fred Anderson, reedman Anthony Braxton and the members of the group the Art Ensemble of Chicago -- tended toward a quieter, more contemplative sound than the raucous dissonance often heard in New York avant-garde jazz circles, and they started The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Chicago's Avant-Garde Musicians
According to Festinger s cognitive dissonance theory, peoples cognitive system has a tendency to keep consonance.
He twists and turns in his efforts to get away from the cacophonous dissonance, and then untwists himself to get out of his sheets.
Contained on this little slab of orange coloured vinyl are two absolute gems for those of you who like to push your adventurous listening to the furthest extremes of dissonance; once you hear it, you'll be hooked like a kid on a sugar rush.
As he played Chopin's D flat Nocturne, its simple song and silken dissonances sounding in the ghostly gloom of the Turbine Hall, no one stirred. Daniel Barenboim - review
A rabbi - whom I immediately felt sorry for - was 'awash in paradoxicality', which apparently proved that 'cognitive dissonance is good for intractable conflicts'. Archive 2005-05-01
Laughed reading your comment about "improvisations"--I took piano for 11 years, but having lived for 8 years, sans piano, I've reached the playing nadir where the simplest Mozart piece sounds like weird atonal dissonance. Fixing a Hole
I am the child of their ancestral dissonance with all its contrariness and overlappings.
His moments of desperate frustration lend realistic dissonance to their relationship.
Given how much disability and debilitation of health in this country is linked to chronic pain, going largely untreated by the current for-profit-ONLY health care system, this dissonance is important to remember. Archive 2010-04-01
Clothahump nodded, his breath coming in short, labored THE DAY OF THE DISSONANCE 3 gasps. The Day of the Dissonance
Such are aural resources that a Tennysonian syllabic ironist like Dickens can elsewhere mobilize, and in the context of epochal dissonance rather than the restorative harmony of Little Dorrit, when, in describing the roar of a locomotive in Dombey and Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Yet it might end up in increasing political dissonance between continental Europe on one side and England and the US on the other.
Cognitive dissonance theory - the idea that people try to avoid having inconsistent or dissonant thoughts - could also play a role, the researchers say.
In 1913 Paris was hit by The Rite of Spring and by a volume of noise and dissonance that no human had experienced outside the field of battle.
You start to understand why, even given late-Romantic levels of dissonance, atonality so bothered the d'Indys of the world — dissonance was OK as long as the movement from key center to key center remained purposeful and perceptible, but lose that modulation, and things start to seem random. Mod squad
I regret that I have to strike a little note of dissonance in this otherwise unanimous debate.
Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used.
I would choose to read the current exhibition as an attempt to address the dissonance between the personhood of the individual and the institutional tendency of states and corporations to depersonalise the individual into a type.
There's always been a softer, pop, kind of folky tune. ... every other record has a fair amount of dissonance. Undefined
Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
Revelling in colour and contrast, drama and dissonance, boldness and individualism, it was the architectural legacy of Romanticism.
The LoneTones, "Canaries" -- Fuzz, dissonance and reverb have been employed by roots-rockers like My Morning Jacket and Neil Young for years, so it should be no surprise that Appalachian outfit The LoneTones employ those elements with equal dexterity. The Daily Times News Headlines
Any knowledge on modes, scales, intervals, dissonances, consonances, note names, and solmisation for example was superfluous and hence discarded.
Due to the volatility of the situation, managers tend to withdraw power from the working levels lest local autonomy causes dissonance.
In some quarters this is known as cognitive dissonance.
I may be a "psychobabbler" but what I do all day in my work is observe the cognitive dissonance between what people say and what they do. Bolden and Garver: Smooth Sailing - NASA Watch
I really like watching his HK films with that dissonance in mind, looking for the different ways Chinese culture expects stories to be told.
They all resonate at the same pitch, yet produce a constant, layered dissonance due to the room's inconsistent acoustics.
Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance, an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.
But he adds that also in the ecclesial environment dissonances emerged: At times - he ends with a pinch of bitterness - one has the impression that our society needs at least one group for which it does not reserve any tolerance; which one can unperturbedly set upon with hatred. Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications II
Abandoning the preconceived notions of tonality, and immersed within a musical state of dissonance, Coltrane's music became a communicative attempt at reaching a higher plane.
It is based upon the belief that conflict and social dissonance are a product of the dialectical interplay of unequal relations in any community based in a bureaucratic regime.
The heck with dissonance, what's the German for ‘gigantic thumping irony?’
Tippett uses dissonance, but it sounds like music.
The result, again, was a recognition of cognitive dissonance between internal stakeholder groups.
They were piled high with supplies and THE DAY OF TOR DISSONANCE yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease. The Day of the Dissonance
Here we find St. Isidore employing the term diaphony in its original sense, as a Greek word, meaning dissonance -- a sense exactly opposite to that of Jean de Muris. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
Penny Miller, London N16Skirting boards and cornices at the wall-ceiling joint are also a way of softening the cognitive dissonance that occurs when the retina provides curves that the optic lobe knows are straight lines or flat planes. Notes and queries: Pecking order: chicken's favourite snacks; skirting board as cognitive dissonance softener; Byron's trudge across the Tagus
Now, in 2004, WC has associated itself with a movie that includes such "unwholesome" activities as; pot smoking, sex, and sexual perversion …Such dissonance is not lost on the company. August 2004
The "My name is Correctness, king of kings" people say that security problems are merely one manifestation of incorrectness, which is dissonance between what the program is supposed to do and what its implementation actually does. Planet Python
Actually, this is a whole lot like what I just described in terms of cognitive dissonance and syncretic religions.
My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Vampishone Diary Entry
She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing. Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady
Then there's Bartok's stretched tonality, the expressive dissonances that result only partly from his use of scales and modes from eastern European folk music, the downright virtuosity of the writing, especially for piano.
Does this dissonance between politicians and voters matter?
It's a role he relishes, particularly for the cognitive dissonance It'serves up : A Republican Deadhead?
His silence in the face of melting icecaps and inundated cities created - exactly as he knew it would - the kind of dissonance that whipped the nation into the frenzy of environmental "Jacobinism" that characterized the 2010s. Born on the Sixth of July: Celebrating George Bush's Secret Presidential Life
Designed as a meditation on the Passionstory, it's an austere, rather forbidding piece: the style of the motets (which may be performed as aseparate sequence) harksback to Renaissance polyphony without a greatdeal of contrast or dynamic variety, while the sonatas arefar moredramatic: sometimes full ofdense, packed dissonances; at othersfragile and provisional. Rihm: Vigilia
The result, again, was a recognition of cognitive dissonance between internal stakeholder groups.
Tonality and atonality (as syntaxes) may be anathema to one another, but the relationship between consonance and dissonance in tonal music is a defining characteristic of tonality. Spark plugs and transmissions
As well as being finely crafted there is a unifying mood that reaches a peak in an expressive pedal point, sustained dissonance in the horns with side drum interjections, preparing for a pensive conclusion.
Grimaud's ability to evoke both sensitive tonal shadings and clangorous dissonance made this movement an overwhelming experience.
That is, the composer was liberated from the constraints of ‘voice leading rules’ whereby dissonance was subordinated to consonance in traditional harmony and counterpoint.
For this reason, power chords are often used when using fuzzboxes to reduce dissonance.
My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumbrous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacaphony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)
The composer wanted to introduce some of he describes as "uncomfortable" notions (such as dissonances, pentuplets and intentionally vague rhythmic packaging) within a more comfortable context; such as blues-influenced melodies and harmonies. Audiophile Audition Headlines
Conditional postmillennialism also offers believers a safety net, for it constitutes a fail - proof prophecy, pre-empting any potential for cognitive dissonance or loss of faith.
to produce a dissonance.
This study used mild emotional stimuli, those associated with people's reactions to musical consonance versus dissonance.
The echoes that the harsh dissonance produced were cut short with the ongoing volume.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
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.
He employs a wide variety of tonal registers and often emphasizes dissonance or euphony in particular verses by varying the intensity of speed and volume while reading.
Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances. An Otherworldly Opera
By the late 1940s, he was already employing modern classical ideas such as polytonality and dissonance, and working in unusual time signatures to create a distinctive jazz sound. NPR Topics: News
The unzoned exurban dissonance goes on like this kilometer after kilometer on west coast expressway 15, making me press on the accelerator and watch out for police speed cameras. Seoul
Dissonances and other modernities would be heard, but experienced in the humane context of lyrical impulses, graspable forms and narratives. Times, Sunday Times
Chopin has fallen through dissonance into the abyss - only to curve upward in the third Prelude to a world of unostentatious grace.
Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.
And the ending is simply superb, though I could wish that some of the terrific dissonances in the accompaniment had been put into the unisonal voices to widen the effect and strengthen the final grandeur. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
A polarity is a relation between two broadly contrasting dynamic musical tendencies - say, between consonance and dissonance or continuity and discontinuity.
Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance, an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.
Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances. An Otherworldly Opera
Horowitz disdained the expressive and formal role of dissonance in this music, and attenuated the pugnaciousness and philosophical implications that this repertoire must above all convey.
The music's density is intriguing, its rhythmic energy is compelling, and its harmonic complexity and dissonance is unusual for Reich.
Cultural dissonance oftentimes manifests itself in different lifestyles and preferences.
At times he directs the massed musicians in violent stabs of sound, at others he brings out startlingly lovely dissonances and consonances that are rather like finding a Bird in Igor's yard. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
Havana is a city of architectural ironies and paradoxes, of harmony and dissonance.
In all parts of his work but one he uses the term diaphony as synonymous with symphony; _there_ he gives its ancient meaning of dissonance. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Psychologists talk about ego , id, and cognitive dissonance.
But soon Courtois erupts into an improvised solo of dark chords punctuating sweeping legato lines, while Poulsen releases harmonics and dissonances behind him.
The children's choir sang with freshness of tone, clarity of diction and did not appear fazed by the dissonances that surrounded their vocal line at times.
But the computer part of her objected to the dissonance and with a wistful sigh she put the idea from her. T2©: RISING STORM
And it kind of provides these really interesting dissonances but kind of grooves too. Angola, Spare Standards And A Zooid: New Jazz Albums
Or to put it the other way around, an elaborate contrapuntal texture with emancipated dissonance is a perfect metaphor for the urgent but ineffectual efforts that Pierrot is making.
To use it to describe one's negative reaction to an author's treatment of a text creates a dissonance of sorts - rape is bad, usually refers to things that women/men suffer at the hands of men/women, and has become something of a conversation killer/dampener due to the semantics and paralanguage embedded these days (especially in the US - I'd argue mostly due to rape survivor advocacy centers not not to any sort of puissant puritanism still lingering in my country). On Profanity: 4
Summers’ cognitive dissidence is too much cognitive dissonance for Obama fans to deal with so they’re just trying to not remember it. Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Diverse Team of Dudes
But in 1959 something was wrong with this picture: cognitive dissonance.
This study used mild emotional stimuli, those associated with people's reactions to musical consonance versus dissonance.
This hornet's nest of densely knotted dissonances and sound effects pushes the four players to the limits, but the performance was mostly a success. Juilliard quartet newcomer Joseph Lin challenged by lack of gravitas
Dissonance occurs when ever a person holds inconsistent cognitions (eg opinions, beliefs or behaviours).
Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance. Marion Eug��nie Bauer.
Bruce Williams played a Coltrane-esque solo on alto, even as pianist Sullivan Fortner seemed to be going out of his way to replicate the angular, spiky dissonances of McCoy Tyner. A Young Lion, All Grown Up
A couple months ago, when Google Desktop was released, I wrote an entry saying I didn’t trust Google, especially because of certain dissonances in its declared policy (Don’t be evil) and its actions — for example, when Google News bowed to China’s government and censored search results. Reflective Surface - Archives: 2004 December

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