Valen's approach was derived from Bach, from whose music he evolved a polyphonic technique of dissonant counterpoint. |
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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. |
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This community consists of a chorus of different and sometimes dissonant voices, all funded centrally to foster diversity. |
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Charlotte will not stress the wide dissonant intervals that grind in the bass or the harmonic uncertainty that besets this opening. |
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Boasting a solid, multi-talented cast, Inanna is clever and grand in its scope, with music that careens between harmonious and neatly dissonant. |
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The drinkers perform a comedic caterwaul while the folk singers create a dissonant background to the absurdity. |
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The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence. |
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The simplicity reminds one of a nursery rhyme, but the melodies and chords are dissonant, insidious. |
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The dissonant chords melt into nothingness giving the impression of not wanting to fight anymore, a cruel world left to savage itself away. |
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He is, of course, also drawn to printed textiles and to the way you can juxtapose apparently dissonant colours to create new harmonies. |
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They're uncomfortable, and sometimes dissonant, but mostly they're strangely fun, which makes all these other qualities more bearable. |
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It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself. |
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Rather, we will hear two different and dissonant styles of speaking and they will spawn endless confusions between them. |
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Harmony can be concordant, with all pitches 'agreeing' with each other, or it can be dissonant, creating a sense of tension. |
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Why are there all these dissonant voices giving speeches, some of them conspicuous? |
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The lack of volume can be particularly dissonant when bus conversations clash with your music during the daily commute. |
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The concert begins with Ravel's only string quartet, a vibrant and dissonant work of French impressionism. |
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Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant. |
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What I have started tracking for the next record is more spacey and dissonant than I thought it was going to turn out. |
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Each fractured time signature, every dissonant choirboy harmony, they all point to something that is distinctly Vanderslice. |
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As the string continues its natural division, creating ever-higher overtones, the intervals between them become smaller and sound more dissonant. |
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I slumped into the bench and played something with dissonant notes and unexpected twists to match the room around me. |
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Both compositions are quite dissonant and require careful reading of many accidentals. |
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At 5 am, I was shaken awake from my sleep by the dissonant sound of drumbeats and jarring notes emerging from a defunct synthesizer. |
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Its melody, very Middle Eastern in tone, overlies a dissonant harmony that gives it a spooky feel without being too jarring. |
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Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing. |
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A horrible yowling sound rent the air, a cacophony of dissonant notes in the cool morning stillness. |
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The tone was jarringly dissonant from the sunny message Kerry and Edwards have emphasized on their first few days together on the campaign trail. |
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Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones. |
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Ehlers may alienate those uninterested in being taken on a tour through dissonant post-classical territories, preferring instead a stay in pleasanter climes. |
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Cappiello is the Italian-born father of the Modern Poster, whose technique utilized strong, flat and sometimes dissonant colors against dark backgrounds. |
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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. |
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Its uneasy berceuse-rhythm and dissonant, augmented harmonies are developed to a climax of striking intensity. |
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While I looked on, he let loose a fast-figured, at times piercingly dissonant improvisation, with reposeful tonal chords to close. |
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One of the most complex and dissonant pieces written prior to the 20th century, this fugue has been called diabolic, the work of a madman. |
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His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment. |
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The dissonant frequencies can dominate the fundamental frequency, thus you may have to tune this one accordingly. |
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What we need to do is to take a look at challenges as not being dissonant with competitiveness. |
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Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann when he sent her this piece, asking whether she felt it was too radically dissonant. |
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In pop psychology, denial is neither resisting nor forgetting dissonant facts, but simply ignoring them. |
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A hallucinogenic canvas of images whose narcotic effect is violently strengthened by a thundering, dissonant soundtrack by Michael Gordon. |
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It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The complexity seems more interesting to me aesthetically, the tying together of multiple voices into a kind of whole from consonant to dissonant. |
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His forms are typically harsh and jagged, and his colours dissonant. |
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I suppose this dissonant finding is expected, if disappointing. |
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It was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill. |
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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. |
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The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings. |
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Who became an accomplished concert pianist before she tuned her ear to the more dissonant chords of international relations. |
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The first theme is dissonant and chromatic, flowing like a red river of blood. |
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Mallon was thrown by his anger and the dissonant paleness of his eyes, and before he could reply the driver seized the pickpocket's jacket and gave him a shake. |
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He promised to tone down the witty, sarcastic, grotesque and dissonant elements of his earlier style and to write music with a more lyrical, melodic, more consonant approach. |
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Beginning quietly, the orchestra drops to the extremely soft ppp level, setting up an explosively dissonant C-sharp blast, followed by a laughing, full volume repetition of the opening theme. |
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This light-hearted, alluring concerto is nearly devoid of dissonant effects and contrapuntal complexities, but it boasts a veritable parade of melodic ideas. |
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As Stravinsky's dissonant score pulsed, as the dancers of the Ballets Russes darted and scuttered, whispers in the audience gave way to agitated shouts and screams. |
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Its unresolved dissonant harmony reappears continuously throughout the opera, maintaining a constant feeling of emotional and musical tension finding resolution only at the opera's tragic end. |
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A chord or chord progression is consonant or dissonant according to the period in which you live, your listening experience, your personal temperament and the context of the chord in the composition as a whole. |
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These edifices of sound – though disturbingly dissonant for an audience in 1913 – are chosen with impeccable refinement, and they underpin the score's complete arc with a structural surety on an almost Beethovenian level. |
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Surrealism raised this sort of visualization of the unharmonious, dissonant side of human existence to the status of a program. |
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With its dreamily abstract lyrics and strange, dissonant melody, Gaby did not appear to be destined for chart success and yet, somehow, Bashung's performance gripped the public imagination and he has never looked back since. |
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This will always sound metallic and dissonant. |
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Harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. |
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The singer's flair for negotiating dissonant modern harmonies and austere neoclassical melodies led to invitations to sing the premieres of hundreds of new works by contemporary composers. |
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Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech. |
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