Here, too, the music shifted from alienating dissonance to archetypal familiarity.
Party-line Surrealism played in negatively, a dissonance to stir up the mind, break down categories.
A performance of Stravisnky's Concerto in D added exciting dissonance to the evening's sonic palette.
Harrison's music traverses a huge stylistic range, from adamantine dissonance to melodies of homespun sweetness.
Wednesday's set featured an extended stretch of tense, fascinating electronica: darkly hovering tones and chords, evolving from dissonance to dissonance.
Ms. Koh sailed undaunted through this athletic piece, whose contrasting character veered from harsh dissonance to fleeting lyricism.
Mr. Wolpe's 14-minute Adagio uses an alternation of consonance and mild dissonance to create fluid states of tension.
There are tinges of dissonance to accompany the opera's uglier moments, but this music's main intent is to oblige.
Francis," it is a synthesis of all the composer's styles, from riots of birdsong to episodes of celestial jazz, from ferocious dissonance to blazing tonality.
The film won immediate critical praise, as did Copland's accessible adaptation of modernist techniques — including, daringly for the time, dissonance — to his score's wide-open, pastoral evocations.
Or, as he described that moment of cognitive dissonance to the 911 operator, "She said her name is Wenda Berry or some shit.
