Sentence examples for grating dissonance from inspiring English sources
Her soaring melodies were woven through sections of vividly contrasting character, with grating dissonance melting into more lyrical moments.
But the shock value of the "Rite" comes more from the savagery, pummeling power and grating dissonance of the score than from any pathbreaking experiments with radical composition on Stravinsky's part.
The emphasis is on refinement, scrupulously avoiding harsh textures and grating dissonances to conjure pleasurable languor.
Hearing the piece after its precursors, you could discern how it refined and extended the speech-melody technique Mr. Reich first used in "Different Trains," and how its grating dissonances and keening melodies resembled those of Mr. Reich's abstract Triple Quartet.
The concert was presented as part of the series Great Music in a Great Space, but while the playing was genuinely magnificent, the enormous reverberations, which muddied the harmonies and then amplified the resulting dissonances, quickly became grating.
Colossal bellows, needling synthetic bleats, and grating textures unfold in explosive, angular blocks; harsh noise sits next to shimmering, pristine sounds, dissonance directly up against eerie silences.
The hypocrisy is grating.
Tonalities clash without grating.
A long, grating potty joke.
