2. Verb. (third-person singular of discord) ¹
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Definition of Discords
1. discord [v] - See also: discord
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discords
Literary usage of Discords
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"The discords of the 3rd and 4th classes are very rare. ... This chord-class,
unlike the First and Second classes, consists exclusively of discords. ..."
2. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"Musical intervals, therefore, are divided into chords and discords. ... The seconds,
the sevenths, the minor fifths and major fourths, are discords. ..."
3. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"But when harmony began to assume independence, these dissonant combinations, or
discords, as they were termed, assumed a more legitimate form, ..."
4. Music by Henry Charles Banister (1887)
"BESIDES the Essential discords hitherto considered, there are two other large
classes of ... and discords by Suspension. 199. A DISCORD BY SUSPENSION, ..."
5. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"By such evils as these, the fair fame of the Swiss Religious was tarnished, their
moral character cor- discords. rupted, and their national independence ..."
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