The songs are slow and mostly picked and the guitar is tuned to very dissonant sounds.

Harmonization usually sounds pleasant to the ear when there is a balance between the consonant and dissonant sounds.

Rough, dissonant sounds are only starters, since even the most grating effect loses its impact if it reappears predictably.

Therefore, his instruction cannot be followed by pianists playing modern instruments without creating an unpleasantly dissonant sound.

Stravinsky's music has many complex harmonies with dissonant sounds.

When a director and actors attempt to tell a story in another language, it can create a dissonant sound.

What he created was a sound - dissonant, jagged and lyrical - unmistakably his alone.

Melodic vocal fragments are set against more dissonant but colorful sounds in the instrumental ensemble.

Marking a serious departure in the expected technique developed previously, Chopin wrote this étude with a series of quick minor seconds that produce slightly dissonant sounds.

That's the appeal of this festival: the pleasingly dissonant sound of writers singing from many different hymn sheets.