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How to use dissonant in a sentence

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Valen's approach was derived from Bach, from whose music he evolved a polyphonic technique of dissonant counterpoint.
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.
This community consists of a chorus of different and sometimes dissonant voices, all funded centrally to foster diversity.
Charlotte will not stress the wide dissonant intervals that grind in the bass or the harmonic uncertainty that besets this opening.
Boasting a solid, multi-talented cast, Inanna is clever and grand in its scope, with music that careens between harmonious and neatly dissonant.
The drinkers perform a comedic caterwaul while the folk singers create a dissonant background to the absurdity.
The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
The simplicity reminds one of a nursery rhyme, but the melodies and chords are dissonant, insidious.
The dissonant chords melt into nothingness giving the impression of not wanting to fight anymore, a cruel world left to savage itself away.
He is, of course, also drawn to printed textiles and to the way you can juxtapose apparently dissonant colours to create new harmonies.
They're uncomfortable, and sometimes dissonant, but mostly they're strangely fun, which makes all these other qualities more bearable.
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
Rather, we will hear two different and dissonant styles of speaking and they will spawn endless confusions between them.
Harmony can be concordant, with all pitches 'agreeing' with each other, or it can be dissonant, creating a sense of tension.
Why are there all these dissonant voices giving speeches, some of them conspicuous?
The lack of volume can be particularly dissonant when bus conversations clash with your music during the daily commute.
The concert begins with Ravel's only string quartet, a vibrant and dissonant work of French impressionism.
Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
What I have started tracking for the next record is more spacey and dissonant than I thought it was going to turn out.
Each fractured time signature, every dissonant choirboy harmony, they all point to something that is distinctly Vanderslice.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They were taller and bulkier than the Cambrians, and were speaking a dissonant English jargon.
My mother's aversions and attachments, habits and views, were dissonant with my own.
She was fitted to this landscape, whereas the other woman was alien and dissonant.
Their apparel is indifferent, so it be dissonant from the laity.
Even Strabo omits some names, because they were too rough and dissonant.
The air becomes dissonant with wind instruments, and horrible with clamor of a million throats.
Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being.
Cicero found it barren and dissonant, and as such he had to deal with it.
He was startled by the loud and dissonant voice of a man who was apparently dismounting at the door.
In both cases, the gesture of the author often receded in favor of harder lines, more dissonant sounds, and seriality.
A baker's cart had already rattled through the street, chasing away the latest vestige of night's sanctity with the jingle-jangle of its dissonant bells.
Great vistas but as tonally dissonant as The Gods Must Be Crazy.
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