dissonances in English

noun
1
lack of harmony among musical notes.
an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles
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1. Dissonances are most acute when the dissonant voices are close together.

2. "Resting" intervals are the fifth and octave, with thirds and sixths considered dissonances.

3. In tonal music dissonances are unstable and sound as if they should move to a consonance.

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5. Musical Consonances and dissonances : Are they distinguished independently by the right and left hippocampi? / Wieser, Heinz Gregor; Mazzola, Guerino

6. When inverted Consonances and dissonances were presented in the second test, the discriminative behavior was not well demonstrated

7. His basic musical idioms were based on the tradition of tonality, but he also, if necessary, resorted to dissonances and occasional atonality.

8. The true Beethovenian dissonances are rude but that does not mean to cudgel or hammer the piano as many pianists mistakenly tend to make it

9. The composer describes it as "a dark and sinister night full of strange happenings and ghoulish encounters." Opening with a menacing march as Creatures emerge from the darkness, dissonances soon appear

10. In their grammar symbolic systems, being operatively closed and non-intentional systems, reproduce an analectic of thesis, antithesis and hysteresis running contrary to the harmonistic dialectic of human perception (resolution into synthesis and the avoiding of cognitive dissonances) and here also deepens the discontinuities between man and society.