How To Use Dissonant In A Sentence

Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
They evoke dissonant narratives of colonial history.
Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random

I just don't see what is so dissonant about that.
Why are there all these dissonant voices giving speeches, some of them conspicuous?
The "mystery" is in just how they combine diaphonic singing and dissonant harmonies to produce a breathtaking, otherworldly sound somewhere between the Muslim call to prayer and the Beach Boys. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – review
Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing.
When Ellel spoke of Hunagor and Werra dying, her voice pealed like dissonant bells, an enjoyment Qualary perceived but did not question. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Harmony can be concordant, with all pitches 'agreeing' with each other, or it can be dissonant, creating a sense of tension.
THERE ARE TWO Africas: the bush - ancient, agrarian, slow to change - and the city - vibrant, dissonant, evolving by the minute.
The first dissonant note of the debate came from an MP who accused the president of ‘scurrying off to his bunker’ after the attacks.
Weill's brief overture is wonderfully astringent and dissonant, the precise opposite of the florid, creamy style of the composer often regarded as his chief competitor, George Gershwin.
M and n, though widely dissonant, are often employed by the earlier poets as homotonous. The works in verse and prose
Cappiello is the Italian-born father of the Modern Poster, whose technique utilized strong, flat and sometimes dissonant colors against dark backgrounds.
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. The Celtic Alternative
An F# major mode is set out in a layered contrapuntal texture, piccolo and violins marking the fast crotchet beat while glockenspiel, celesta and sampler cut across this with triplet rhythms and a few dissonant pitches.
Not doing well results in dissonant silence or an intentionally dissonant interruption. Music Sweet Music
The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings.
These dissonant days the best a player can hope for as an inspirational backdrop to his talent is an off-pitch dirge.
Naturally, one can use such counter-parallelisms in many other ways, using more dissonant-type chords, or a more slender texture.
Thus, any music that doesn't manifest a recognizable emotion (by implication at least, all of "dissonant" modernist music) couldn't be music. Music
Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
From the works of Boethius (_circa_ 400) and others, he had derived and accepted the Pythagorean division of the scale, making thirds and sixths dissonant intervals; and so his perfect chord (from which our later triad gets its name of _perfect_) was composed of a root, fifth or fourth, and octave. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink. Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
That of being a voice out of the choir, a dissonant voice playing a false note in the dominant discourse recited by the ruling power. Aldo Civico: The King is Naked! In defense of Michele Santoro.
The complexity seems more interesting to me aesthetically, the tying together of multiple voices into a kind of whole from consonant to dissonant.
His acquisition sparks dissonant responses from his two best friends, Marc, an aeronautical engineer and Yvan, who after a life in ‘textiles’ has found a new job as a sales agent for a wholesale stationery business.
Rather, we will hear two different and dissonant styles of speaking and they will spawn endless confusions between them.
It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones.
The concert begins with Ravel's only string quartet, a vibrant and dissonant work of French impressionism.
The contrary is the case in diaphony, which is the union of dissonant sounds. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
In such works, the serene surface of domestic placidity is only occasionally ruffled by dissonant details: Lou presents a world that is as familiar as it is banal.
His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative. Cover to Cover
It will probably be a dissonant chord to help you see that it is the cacophony, the crack between the major expectations, where the light of n|om jazz shines its ray. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
I slumped into the bench and played something with dissonant notes and unexpected twists to match the room around me.
In pictures in the intimist spirit he abandoned the subdued color scheme of intimism to experiment with unusual, somewhat dissonant color combinations in a way that influenced the fauves - to be seen hereafter - and then, in turn, he was influenced by them.
PET (positron emission tomography) imaging conducted while subjects listened to consonant or dissonant chords showed that different localized brain regions were involved in the emotional reactions.
Ehlers may alienate those uninterested in being taken on a tour through dissonant post-classical territories, preferring instead a stay in pleasanter climes.
Displaying not a little control-freakery, some thin-skinned bloggers - who notoriously shun dissonant views - were quick to welcome the move.
Hope against hope, at a certain point, becomes too searingly painful to watch, because the disconnect between the glimmer of hope and the inevitable grief is just too dissonant.
And you hear this dissonant intervals of pitch between these two parts in Bulgaria - in Georgia you hear them mostly, two top parts and there is also bass.
Cognitive dissonance theory - the idea that people try to avoid having inconsistent or dissonant thoughts - could also play a role, the researchers say.
The digital living room she was once going to fill with listening and sharing as she cakewalked to the nomination has become an altogether more dissonant gathering place. Only Connect
Even the heaviest, most aggressive, anti-mainstream music artists of the time strove for melody and recognized the limitations of "listenable", rebelling from the Top 40 and appealing to outsider kids with high-pitched solos and vocals, reasonable amounts of distortion, loud drums, minor chords, and dissonant note and chord progressions. Cyberpunk
One part loopy, dissonant, wrenching guitars, one part playful synth bleeps and bloops, one part punky, four on the floor drumming and shouted female vocals all generously sprinkled with raw disco energy and a refreshing sense of humour.
In fact, the extra content is what sticks to my mind now, while the film itself is fading to a pleasantly dissonant collection of images and emotions.
It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones.
His forms are typically harsh and jagged, and his colours dissonant.
Valen's approach was derived from Bach, from whose music he evolved a polyphonic technique of dissonant counterpoint.
I suppose this dissonant finding is expected, if disappointing.
The basil does add a bit of grassy and fresh linalool element at the opening that I now find interesting and not as out of place and dissonant as it did back than. Archive 2008-03-01
The dissonant chords melt into nothingness giving the impression of not wanting to fight anymore, a cruel world left to savage itself away.
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. Unnatural Acts of Opera
The instrumental interludes are brilliantly conceived - bright, dissonant, and seemingly mock-serious.
Whatever the origins of the malaise, this dissonant combination of urban potential, challenges and inadequate responses can only lead to more frustration and cynicism among citizens.
As the string continues its natural division, creating ever-higher overtones, the intervals between them become smaller and sound more dissonant.
Pelham made demands to use a kind of dissonant but yet confluent music that I wanted to write in my ear by itself but not lead me to it, so by employing those techniques, the problem got solved and I'm very proud of it. Cinematical
If her slightly warped geometry and dissonant, high-keyed colors sometimes suggest the cartoon world of Elizabeth Murray, Cecily Kahn is more deeply rooted in the tradition of abstraction.
What struck me for the first time was the relationship of this style with the style of jazz known as bebop, spurts of dissonant, jagged sound.
The drinkers perform a comedic caterwaul while the folk singers create a dissonant background to the absurdity.
The political calculus is that Palin is hilariously unelectable, especially given the outstanding contrast between the president's seriousness and legislative accomplishments and Palin's awkwardly-cadenced screeching, her dissonant incomprehensible populist word salads and unserious, airheaded public flailings. Bob Cesca: The Perfect Storm That Could Elect Sarah Palin
I would be in fact, I originally didn't bring the number to a hand but had it end on a sort of on a dissonant chord with kind of violent harmonics, meaning very high, shrill sounds. 'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80
Dissonant notes resolve in a conventional way, only to become part of an unexpected chord.
Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink. Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
It may be to this very fact that a certain unwritten ‘law’ is owed: this law prefers that melodic notes dissonant to the prevailing harmony should be resolved by step.
But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging. Kings
And resolution has a musical overtone that I like as well: the progression of a dissonant chord to a consonant one.
At 5 am, I was shaken awake from my sleep by the dissonant sound of drumbeats and jarring notes emerging from a defunct synthesizer.
A lot of harsh, dissonant music has been composed in the last 40 years.
They're uncomfortable, and sometimes dissonant, but mostly they're strangely fun, which makes all these other qualities more bearable.
Orchestral detail surfaced through a pearly white haze in which any dissonant harmony blurred into non-existence. Times, Sunday Times
Last winter, I dragged Chris to see Wozzeck, a modern German opera that, while not atonal and only occasionally dodecaphonic, sounds dissonant and strange. One thing about LiveJournal that annoys me.
His greatest music was made at a time of optimism in America, when the roar of the plains and the dissonant buzz of the cities still felt like the bugle calls of the new frontier.
Both compositions are quite dissonant and require careful reading of many accidentals.
With this graphic, the 18 caveating words are no longer caveating, dissonant with the message the graphic sends, but are reinforcing. A. Siegel: How many words is a graphic worth? WashPost temperature chart & ClimateGATE
The lack of volume can be particularly dissonant when bus conversations clash with your music during the daily commute.
The essay explores the dissonant moments in this allegorical translation from one historical moment to another, but also raises questions regarding the relationship between patriotic performance and the commutable construction of social space. Article Abstracts
In discussing "The Night Café" 1888, a well-known depiction of a disreputable barroom in Arles—a jarring composition featuring bright yellow gaslight shining on blood-red walls—they tell us that "Vincent began his dissonant painting in a dissonant mood. A Stranger to Himself
Secondly, whatever is consonant with scripture, may be proved by scripture: but there are many things not dissonant from scripture which cannot be proved by it.
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker
The cry of nature hushed every other cry, — she was the only patient in the house who was not mad from politics, religion, ebriety, or some perverted passion; and terrifying as the outbreak of her frenzy always was, Stanton used to await it as a kind of relief from the dissonant, melancholy, and ludicrous ravings of the others. Melmoth the Wanderer
What I have started tracking for the next record is more spacey and dissonant than I thought it was going to turn out.
From its first unsettling minutes, where piano, flutes, violins, harp and tuned percussion trill, pluck and flutter over a gently dissonant ostinato bass, the symphony unfolds an almost seamless 26-minute structure.
This is a fairly transparent way of rejecting experimental music -- just as many others reject experimental fiction or poetry because it's also "dissonant" -- and Pitt does a good job of diagnosing its flaws. Music
Boasting a solid, multi-talented cast, Inanna is clever and grand in its scope, with music that careens between harmonious and neatly dissonant.
Charlotte will not stress the wide dissonant intervals that grind in the bass or the harmonic uncertainty that besets this opening.
On the word "Virgo," the altos sing a dissonant appoggiatura G-sharp. A Chant-related Google Alert (Yes!)
Its melody, very Middle Eastern in tone, overlies a dissonant harmony that gives it a spooky feel without being too jarring.
The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings.
Latin verb gustare, “to taste;” but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor’s rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
The simplicity reminds one of a nursery rhyme, but the melodies and chords are dissonant, insidious.
This community consists of a chorus of different and sometimes dissonant voices, all funded centrally to foster diversity.
While Doria and Denardo clearly embrace the primal power of the drone, their sound is loud but not dissonant or cacophonous, and is seldom if ever grating but instead clean.
To the dissonant lives of the Mann brothers she has added the interwar wanderings of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, James and Nora Joyce, Aldous and Maria Huxley, plus a cast of peripatetic literati from Benjamin to Isherwood. House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review
And resolution has a musical overtone that I like as well: the progression of a dissonant chord to a consonant one.
These chords with augmented fourths are both strongly dissonant and can add considerably to the variety of harmonic colour available.
Harrison is due to attend the gala opening at the Mirage Hotel-Casino along with the two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, in a rare reassemblage of the extended, and sometimes dissonant, Beatles family. It’s All in the Music
Unfortunately, the drums do present a problem on ‘Delirious’, a boxy, somewhat shrill piece that utilizes spare, dissonant guitar lines.
Fong's violin gradually assumes more control over the quartet, leading it into imitation, sparking its tempo, and supplying high-pitched notes in dissonant tutti chords.
After a cadenza closing on a dominant triad, the music's insouciance is tempered by a grave adagio in four parts, riddled with dissonant suspensions painfully resolved in a decorated cadence in the tonic major.
Here Spielberg uses his passion and great gift to syncretise story elements that certainly don't clash on the screen and only seem dissonant in the abstract.
His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment.
He is, of course, also drawn to printed textiles and to the way you can juxtapose apparently dissonant colours to create new harmonies.
Nico Muhly's score, layering electronic beats, live ensemble and choir, is a tempest in itself, with textures and colours battering against each other in a dissonant blast. Stephen Petronio Company – review
Here are some other words that start with dis to describe this movie… discordant, discrepant, disharmonic, disharmonious and dissonant. Review: Children Of Men (reasonably spoiler-free)
Each fractured time signature, every dissonant choirboy harmony, they all point to something that is distinctly Vanderslice.

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