Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be dissonant or harsh: said of sounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb music To be
dissonant . - verb music To cause
dissonance (in all senses).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be dissonant or harsh
- verb cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
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Examples
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Concordant sounds, the highest and the lowest, agree in such way that if one of them happens to dissonate it offends the ear.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Here already we have a progress in perception of tones, in the ability to discriminate between those which harmonize and those which dissonate.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Starting around the late '90s in Poland, a small community of musicians and labels came into existence, creating dissonate sonic sculptures in the tradition of bands/musicians like
"xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader /etal/inx 2010
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