Sentence examples for dissonance from from inspiring English sources

There has been unsettling dissonance from the allies, too.

Let's hope that the same forces return with the Second Piano Concerto, which rings hallucinatory variations on the fearsome seven-note dissonance from Beethoven's Ninth.

In Mr. Haber's deconstruction the melody is heard throughout the piece but is wrapped in a cloak of contemporary bursts of harmony and dissonance from the recorders and strings.

Mechanized drumbeats, monotone or tuneless vocals and strictly bare-bones productions connect bands like Neon or 0010110000010011 to international counterparts like Suicide, Einstürzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle; there's also post-punk guitar dissonance from Rats and Spirocheta Pergoli and repetition as provocation from l'Ultimo Arcano, Maurizio Bianchi and Tasaday.

Instead it offers audacity, invention and talent, beginning with crack jazz accompaniment ranging from bluesy strains to Anthony Braxton-like dissonance from Ezra Gale on double bass, Rick Burkhardt on piano and, on alternate nights, Jen Baker on trombone and Steven Leffue on saxophone.

At times the ricocheting between ancient Chinese and contemporary Western idioms seems forced: a passage of Chinese operatic singing, accompanied by a battery of Chinese percussion instruments, breaks off, and we get a burst of cutting-edge dissonance from the impressive Ensemble Modern, conducted by Ed Spanjaard.

In Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concert, Michael Collins' pure, fine sound uncurled over searing dissonances from the strings.

Whereas "Dark Waves" builds towering dissonances from simple intervals of the perfect fifth, "Become Ocean" is more tonally centered, almost to the point of lushness.

Yet Mr. Jennings used 12-tone rows and dissonances: from that perspective, these pieces have more in common with Webern than with Mr. Riley and company.

Westworld presents the viewer with a multitude of threads to tease out, a dozen pressing questions to search for clues in the little dissonances from week to week.

Nearly all the time there's loads of dissonance — either from weird intonation or from purposefully clashing lines — but it doesn't make the music pointy and icy.