A little too inclined to a high and brittle sort of dissonance over which she seemed to have no control.

His voice had the dissonance, and at times the inspiriting effect of the trumpet.

His voice had the dissonance, and at times the inspiriting effect of the trumpet.

An impalpable veil had come between them, a subtle dissonance in point of view.

It is subject to various limitations from the pressure of other laws; and thus the removal of a trifling superfluity will not be justified by a wise economy if that loss entails a dissonance, or prevents a climax, or robs the expression of its ease and variety.

In the latter the parenthetic interruption is a source of power: it dams the current to increase its force; in the former the inversion is a loss of power: it is a dissonance to the ear and a diversion of the thought.

She remembered, too, that she had often reproached herself for her irrational prejudice against the man,that she was forever finding something false and sinister in the face that every one else said was eminently handsome, and ugly dissonance in the voice that all Hendrik praised for its music.

Often they fall into the former corruption as far as the essence is concerned, and almost always into dissonance with one's self, because they have an honest sentiment that they must give to the world something new, and they know not what.

Disagreement N. disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity &c 83; incongruity, incongruence^; discongruity^, mesalliance; jarring &c v.; dissension &c 713; conflict &c (opposition) 708; bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle.

Discord N. discord, discordance; dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness &c 410.

Every moment increased the violence of the gale that howled and bellowed as it swept around the echoing roof of that rock-ribbed prison; while the hoarse dash of the approaching waves, and the shrill screams of the sea-birds that filled the cavern, formed a concert of terrible dissonance, well suited for the requiem, of the hapless wretch who had been enclosed in that living grave!

From ev'ry palace bursts a mingled clamour, The dreadful dissonance of barb'rous triumph, Shrieks of affright, and waitings of distress.

It was not a piano tuner's arpeggio but a curiously teasing mixed dissonance she couldn't begin to identify.

The thin ether-cool air was quivering with the dissonance of bird calls; the low sun had laid great slow-moving oblongs of reddish gilt upon the brown walls of the big room.

This were no contemptible joy, which the thin-blooded philosopher might laugh at,better, indeed, than most to be found here on this fog-rounded flat of ours, where some few melodies from heaven and countless blasts from hell meet, and make such strange, unequal dissonance.

As Litzmann says: "With so shrill a dissonance ended Clara's stay at Leipzig."

R67910. Dissonance. R67414.

R67910. Dissonance. R67414.

A wealth of dissonance.

A Composer should fit his Musick to the Genius of the People, and consider that the Delicacy of Hearing, and Taste of Harmony, has been formed upon those Sounds which every Country abounds with: In short, that Musick is of a Relative Nature, and what is Harmony to one Ear, may be Dissonance to another.

Dissonance arises from the divergence of one of these agents.

He taught that the root of the wordappoggiaturabeing appuyer (to sustain), the chief importance should be given in the phrase, to appoggiatura, by extent and expression; the more so that this note is generally placed on a dissonance; and, according to this master's system, it is on the dissonanceand not at random and very frequently, as is the habit of many singersthat the powerful effect of the vibration of sound should be produced.

But the jarring dissonance of her marriage is inadmissible; it cannot be led up to by any chords no matter how ingenious, the passage, the attempts from one key to the other, is impossible; the true end is the ruin, by death or lingering life, of Elly and the remorse of the mother.

and it seems to me that every day we grow more so, that every day there is a greater dissonance between us!

No one can play the eternal comfort and blessing of tone and sound, its magic correlation with the eager, straining ear; so that"he continued in a lower voice and blushing with confusion"so that the third tone forms a harmonic interval with the first, as does the fifth, and the leading tone rises like a fulfilled hope, while the dissonance is bowed down like conscious wickedness or arrogant pride.