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Definition of Dissonance

1. Noun. A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters.

2. Noun. The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience. "Modern music is just noise to me"

3. Noun. Disagreeable sounds.

Definition of Dissonance

1. n. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Definition of Dissonance

1. Noun. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds ¹

2. Noun. (music) conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding ¹

3. Noun. a state of disagreement or conflict ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dissonance

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dissonance

1. In social psychology and attitude theory, an aversive state which arises when an individual is minimally aware of inconsistency or conflict within himself. See: cognitive dissonance theory. Origin: L. Dissonus, discordant, confused (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissonance

dissolutions dissolvability dissolvable dissolvableness dissolve dissolved dissolved oxygen dissolvents dissolver dissolvers

dissolves dissolveth dissolving dissolving agent dissonance (current term) dissonances dissonancies dissonancy dissonant dissonantly

dissonate dissonated dissonates dissonating dissorophid dissorophids disspirit disspirited

Literary usage of Dissonance

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 simplest dissonance is the interval of a seventh, which results naturally from adding one higher 3rd to the intervals of the triad. See par. 46a. ..."

2. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative æsthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"CONSONANCE, dissonance, AND INTERCHANGE. ... Consonance—dissonance—Harmonizing of the two—Musical Consonance —dissonance—Consonance in Color in Connection ..."

3. A System of Harmony: Founded on Key Relationship, by Means of which a by Hugh Archibald Clarke, Homer Albert Norris (1903)
"dissonance. All chords formed of more than three notes are called dissonant chords. ... i The chief characteristic of dissonance is incompleteness; ..."

4. Music (1897)
"CONSONANCE AND dissonance. BY BERTRAM C. HENRY. ... A consonance isi a "sounding together;" a dissonance is a "sounding apart. ..."

5. The Nature of Harmony and Metre by Moritz Hauptmann (1888)
"then, is given the determination that this dissonance must be a metrical First and its resolution a metrical Second ; that the dissonance must stand upon ..."

6. The Five Senses of Man by Julius Bernstein (1876)
"If two tones are dissonant which are separated by the interval of a tone or a semitone, we must suppose that the sensation of dissonance would be increased ..."

7. Counterpoint Simplified: A Text-book in Simple Strict Counterpoint by Francis Lodowick York (1907)
"It is perfectly allowable in Free Counterpoint to prepare one dissonance by another, ... 92a, even taking the dissonance by a leap as at Fig. 926. 92. ..."

8. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"39), after calling it dissonant— " But here I must make a remark in regard to the idea of dissonance, namely, that the expressions often used, ..."

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