The shrill dissonance in his work is instantly reflected in the brain of the speaker.
In the gaudy foliage of the exotic island, with the three chandeliers of a bygone epoch, the sharp dissonance of styles is indicated.
Moving habitually amongst scenes of suffering, and carrying woman's heaviest disappointment in her heart, the severity which allied itself with self-renouncing beneficent strength had no dissonance for her.
The general principle that any dissonance is admissible when smoothly placed between two consonances is a fundamental law of modern counterpoint.
Among the dissonances he classes the major and minor sixth as incomplete, and says concerning these two only that immediately before a consonance any incomplete dissonance goes very well.
The Pathological Envy - The Cognitive Dissonanceis often coupled with a pathological envy (as opposed to benign jealousy).
Cognitive Dissonance - The collapse of the social and economic systems adversely affects the individual.
There he is related to the Dutch Seer, Rembrandt; both men strove to seek for the eternal correspondence of things material and spiritual; both sought to bring into harmony the dissonance of flesh and the spirit.
With the exception of a certain excess of dissonancefor a love-song, "Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
Die erste Liebe" shows a contemplative originality in harmony, and ends with a curious dissonance and resolution.
For all his gracefulness and lyricism, he makes a sturdy and constant use of dissonance; in his song "Herbstgefühl" the dissonance is fearlessly defiant of conventions.
The dissonance and pain That mortals must endure, Are changed in thine immortal strain To something great and pure.
When the young men touched the harp-strings, Then arose the notes of discord; When the aged played upon it, Dissonance their only music.
Consequently instruments (such as tongues, or reeds) that abound in upper partials cause an intolerable dissonance if one of the primaries is slightly out of tune.
The roughness or dissonance is most disagreeable with about 33 beats falling on the ear per second.
Helmholtz compares the sensation ofdissonance to that of a flickering light on the eye.
If the beats are few in number they can be counted, because they give rise to separate and distinct sensations; but if they are numerous they blend so as to give roughness or dissonance to the interval.
Chopin, adopting the relative minor key as a pendant to the picture in B flat, thrills the nerves by a bold dissonance in the next prelude, No.
Great in outline, pride, force and velocity, it never relaxes its grim grip from the first shrill dissonance to the overwhelming chordal close.
It was not a piano tuner's arpeggio but a curiously teasing mixeddissonance she couldn't begin to identify.
The thin ether-cool air was quivering with the dissonance of bird calls; the low sun had laid great slow-moving oblongs of reddish gilt upon the brown walls of the big room.
The girl had fallen against the table, one hand at her throat as though choking back the bursting cry of fright; her brain rang with the dissonance and metallic clamour; the flashing steel dazzled her.
The dissonance of mental disturbance warns sanity in almost every bar of modern music.
Moreover, try as he will, the poet can never make his word-sounds fully harmonious; some roughness and dissonance will remain; but in silent reading these qualities disappear.
The dissonance and pain That mortals must endure Are changed in thine immortal strain To something great and pure.
The character of the wife, Silvia, is beautiful despite the dissonance of the fatal untruth she utters.
And this modern atmosphere is a jangling dissonance to them that prefer their tragedy unadulterated.
There is no greater dissonance to that sentiment in the South than in the North.
O, that the featherless jaybirds now trying to twitter in long-primer type would apply the soft pedal unto themselves, would add no more to life's dissonance and despair!
As they approached the door they faltered a little in their resolution, for they heard the dissonance of riot and revelry within.
He who would enjoy the musical integument of this play must have cultivated a craving fordissonance in harmony and find relish in combinations of tones that sting and blister and pain and outrage the ear.
By this means the dissonance is evenly distributed so that it is not noticeable in the various chords, in the major and minor keys, where this interval is almost invariably present.
But, now, upon sounding this E with the A below it, you will find it so flat that the dissonance is unbearable.
If your octaves are perfect, this upper fifth will beat a little faster than the lower one, but the dissonance should not be so great as to be disagreeable.
In other words, a dissonance should only be resolved harmonically, or melodically.
In the example cited above I might possibly be reconciled to the painful dissonance if, in the next bar, each part followed the melodic plan.
