There was a harsh melody then, dissonant and filled with despair; a melody with notes, phrases, intervals missing, loaded with subsonics.

Mr. Turner's flute isn't tuned to Western intonation, and his melodies, dissonant and bittersweet, fluttered and arched.

Sonic qualities include soulful vocals (if vocals are included), slow and concentrated dissonant melodies, smooth, stylish, and chic demeanor.

Verlaine established the song's rhythmic phrase, against which Lloyd played dissonant melodies.

After these tones have establish their mood, loud wind instruments cut through the texture with a dissonant raucous melody that ends with the upturned inflection of the Question.

Faint but insistent, the dissonant melody was the same as the strains he had heard when he first came to the shores of Sinanju with Jilda and the others.

Their blades met low, scraping against one another like the opening cord of an appallingly dissonant melody.

"Raise Four" is a blues with an extraordinarily simple but dissonant melody.

"Wicked Annabella" takes on a rather dark and sinister turn, featuring a dissonant melody and unsettling lyrics.

Her persistence played like a dissonant melody against the monotone of job stagnation.