Sentence examples for consonance and from inspiring English sources

You can use these definitions to define consonance and dissonance objectively, but most Westerners know instantly whether a sound is consonant or dissonant and they prefer consonance.

These suddenly smudged images of consonance and peace.

In the end, he says, "This distance between consonance and dissonance is a fiction.

He quotes a verse speech from act three, noting its consonance and internal rhymes.

Family bands can have a special consonance and fluency, and this one definitely does.

Harmonies hover in a no man's land between consonance and dissonance, paradise and oblivion.

Their duet on "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" opens with Sewell's measured dissonances; Wilson gauges her entrance, and soon establishes a gentle, swinging beat, but the performance never completely settles into it, remaining, instead, balanced on the edge of dissonance and consonance, rubato and swing.

Musical theorists have tended to emphasize the vertical aspects of counterpoint, defining the combinations of notes that are consonances and dissonances, and prescribing where consonances and dissonances should occur in the strong and weak beats of musical metre.

Bright consonances and buoyant grooves in David Claman's "Like This," for violin and cello, suggested half of the Kronos Quartet in action.

It's liberated her – who was already, God knows, so bold and free – and given her the nerve to go for the pursuit of pure pleasure in language: sounds, rhymes and half-rhymes, clever consonances and assonances, sheer love of words, the simple saying of them, the surprise of hearing them new again.

The magnificent song that is Solar Bones possesses such peculiar depth, such consonances and dissonances that it is a reminder that a writer of talent can seemingly take any place, any set of characters, any situation and create from them a total vision of the reality.