tone cluster

In most Western music, tone clusters tend to be heard as dissonant.

There are many novel textures in the work, which makes great use of tone clusters.

"Now listen to those wimpy tone clusters down there," she said.

These chords based on dissonance are also called "tone clusters".

Tone clusters also lend themselves to use in a percussive manner.

His early works made use of tone clusters, polyrhythms and other new techniques before they were widely known.

The sound of tone clusters played on the organ became a convention in radio drama for dreams.

Ornstein was the first important composer to make extensive use of the tone cluster.

Gritty tone clusters and even a 12-tone row are incorporated into the sound palette.

"Tone Clusters," an experimental piece, began as a pure concept, devoid of story.

The first section is a cappella, notable for its dissonant tone clusters.

Still, it was not before the second decade of the twentieth century that tone clusters assumed a recognized place in Western classical music practice.

It makes very frequent use of tone clusters, often played fortissimo by brass or organ.

Thick, black lines signify tone clusters, as in the basses at rehearsal 6.

As a whole, Threnody constitutes one of the most extensive elaborations on the tone cluster.

A second album, Tone Cluster, was released the following year in September.

In jazz, as in classical music, tone clusters have not been restricted to the keyboard.

The bluesier numbers were freely laced with impressionistic tone clusters.

The latter piece was notably the first published classical composition to thoroughly integrate true tone clusters.

It is structured as a tone cluster in the trombone section, creating an ominous, harsh sound.

A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.

Keyboard instruments are particularly suited to the performance of tone clusters because it is relatively easy to play multiple notes in unison on them.

One 1969 textbook defines the tone cluster as "an extra-harmonic clump of notes."

Tone clusters have been employed by jazz artists in a variety of styles, since the very beginning of the form.

The pedaling of slow recitatives in the "Tempest" generates tone clusters.