Dissonant

Dissonant counterpoint Dissonant counterpoint was originally theorized by Charles Seeger as "at first purely a school-room discipline," consisting of species counterpoint but with all the traditional rules reversed.

In a world striving for justice and recognizing the voices of survivors, the presence of Mohamed Fayed’s statues at Harrods presents a dissonant note.

So when candidate Harris plays out that healing, communal soul music to her audiences, to my ears there is a dissonant undertone.

The program features Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet (don’t worry, it’s not that dissonant) and Franz Schubert’s fiery farewell to the form, his G-Major Quartet.

As an American who studied and worked in Paris, Thomson also throws in a little of the French Impressionist stuff (whole-tone scales) and the ‘20s modernist stuff (some pleasingly dissonant counterpoint).

For a party devoted to defending the working class, an address in one of the capital’s richest neighborhoods sounded dissonant.

The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.

The problem is not with individual officials here or there, but rather that the general bureaucracy has been tamed to respond to such dissonant information in this manner.

A few somewhat dissonant voices have already been deleted from the government.

As noisy as they are dissonant, is a staple of Denver’s gritty underground — which is funny, considering the band originally hails from Colorado Springs, home to arguably Colorado’s most prolific punk scene.

Specifically, opener “Underlie” initially finds Symonds’ falsetto laments cascading over a soberingly sparse isle of sorrowful piano chords, acoustic guitar arpeggios, and dissonant soundscapes.

The tone of this one is bound to get a little dissonant, because this was a loss and we’re upset about that as well as the bad things that were done, but there was also some solid play buried in all that.

The ominous intro of “Hewed With the Brand” cuts right into a pummeling of dissonant metalcore.

They’re a rock band at the core, but the songs are often shaded with dissonant chord voicings and unpredictable arrangements that are buffered by a two guitar, electric piano front line.

All others are dissonant to greater or lesser degree.sfn Context and many other aspects can affect apparent dissonance and consonance.

Also it is important to note that a dissonant interval is allowed on beat 1 because of the syncopation created by the suspension.

Apart from this categorization, intervals can also be divided into consonant and dissonant.

As explained in the following paragraphs, consonant intervals produce a sensation of relaxation and dissonant intervals a sensation of tension.

As trance is more melodic and harmonic than other electronic dance music, the construction of trance tracks in the proper way is particularly important in order to avoid dissonant (or "key clashing," i.e., out of tune with one another) mixes.

A tritone (the interval of the fourth step to the seventh step of the major scale, i.e., F to B) sounds very dissonant alone, but less so within the context of a dominant seventh chord (G7 or D 7 in that example).