Crossword clues for dissonance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissonance \Dis"so*nance\, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance.]
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A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
--Milton. Want of agreement; incongruity.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "disagreement," from Middle French dissonance and directly from Late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonantem (see dissonant). Figurative use dates from 1875.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a harsh, discordant combination of sounds 2 (context music English) conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding 3 a state of disagreement or conflict
WordNet
n. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters [syn: disagreement, dissension] [ant: agreement]
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, racket]
disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]
Wikipedia
Dissonance has several meanings related to conflict or incongruity:
- Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)
- Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict
- Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.
- Dissonance (album), a 2009 album by Enuff Z'Nuff
- Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.
- Dissonance (film), a 2015 film
Dissonance is the 12th studio album from the band Enuff Z'Nuff. The album reunites singers/songwriters Donnie Vie and Chip Z'Nuff after Vie's hiatus from the band of several years. Original sessions for the album started in 2006, prompted by the band's possible inclusion in a pilot episode for the VH-1 show " Bands on the Run." Songs from these initial sessions, bootlegged as Lost In Vegas by fans, would be later reworked for the official release of Dissonance. Several songs on the CD feature past Ozzy Osbourne/ Badlands guitarist Jake E. Lee.
A limited edition of Dissonance was first sold in the U.S. at the Rocklahoma festival on July 10, 2008, featuring 9 tracks. Dissonance was officially released April 22, 2009 in Japan and on July 19, 2010 in the U.K. The U.K. edition features the bonus tracks "Code Red" and "Run For Your Life." An official U.S. release date has yet to be confirmed.
Initially planned as a DVD release, a 2-CD live album of Enuff Z'Nuff's Japanese tour of Dissonance was created. Titled Live And Peace, it was released in Japan through King Records in December 2009.
Dissonance is a 2015 German short film by German digital and visual artist, graphic designer and filmmaker Till Nowak. It is a hybrid film that combines live action with animation.
Usage examples of "dissonance".
Slowly, letting Bruja make her own way against the dissonance around, Silence eased the ship onto a safe course.
The older the businessperson, by and large, the more frequent and severe the cognitive dissonance is.
Even now they hover over our good city of Exeter, frighting the honest burghers with their dissonance.
True, they had been trying to kill herall the ones she had killedbut they were still people, and Sapphic Cyclans considered killing people as primal dissonance.
Fascism-a strong triple coalition of Brazil, which had taken over three quarters of the South American continent, marching and singing under the silver banners of Garva, and North China, singing the same songs, though with oriental dissonance, under a man called Stephen Chu, and Irania, which included Arabia, Egypt, most of North Africa marching with bur-noose and iron heels under the guidance of that renegade Anglo-Egyptian, George Fahdi.
Immensely proud of their student, they explained that his compositions were a logical extension of the dissonances of modern masters such as Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Hoist, Poulenc, Milhaud, Cage, Hindemith, Copeland, Webern, and Glass.
The spirochetes of syphilis, brought back from the New World by the intrepid explorers on the ships of Columbus, are of no more concern to the blood-drinker than the molecules of alcohol or the harsh dissonance of cocaine.
What stars are these that sing so beautifully when all the world is languishing in dissonance?
There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness.
But if any ghost presence from that past remained to haunt Corith's ruin, the land retained no thread of dissonance.
Up to an augmented seventh as the chorus chimed in on a dissonance, calculated to raise inner hackles and pierce the gut with longing.
It was more subtle than that, just a quick moment of total and complete cognitive dissonance.
Well I am ostensibly because I'm marketed as a science fiction writer, but what I really do is look at what passes for contemporary reality and select the bits that are most useful to me in terms of inducing cognitive dissonance.
He appeared, saying, 'The case of Peters, with his mild punishment, gratifies our liberal instincts but represents a case of cognitive dissonance, the disjunction between reality and one's ideas.
Provoke the kind of cognitive dissonance that will cause them to crumble from within.