Sentence examples for to dissonance from inspiring English sources

Menotti used largely traditional harmonies, resorting at times to dissonance and polytonality to heighten dramatic effect.

Wednesday's set featured an extended stretch of tense, fascinating electronica: darkly hovering tones and chords, evolving from dissonance to dissonance.

Aronson, true to his roots, attributed the effect to dissonance reduction: you want to justify to yourself that the pain was worth it.

The harmony brought to our home by the Steinway has yielded to dissonance: how do four children divide a parent's single most cherished possession?

Ms. Morkoski continued in that spirit, offering a focused, carefully shaped account of Messiaen's Préludes (1930), a student work that shows him finding his own approach to dissonance and sonic imagery within a language still heavily influenced by Debussy.

Amis has self-identified as a comic novelist, and laughter – as the cough of surprise, as the instinctive response to dissonance – is right at the base of his effects.

Yet Weisgall's musical language is so compelling that even operagoers usually resistant to dissonance-saturated scores responded.

Moments of contemplation invariably give way to ominous pulsations and, eventually, to dissonances that can only portend a grand clash.

To Bastian, the loyalty that we experience after feeling pain goes beyond any need to reconcile dissonance or to signal commitment.

This supreme consonance seems less to banish dissonance than to subsume it.

As a result, much of the information available to patients failed to support them in efforts to reduce dissonance and, in some cases, strengthened it.