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dissonance

DI-suh-nens

[English]

Two or more notes sounded together which are discordant, and, in the prevailing harmonic system, require resolution to a consonance.
 
Also discord.

Example


Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, "Dance of the Youths and Maidens"


Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25, I


See Also

[German] Dissonanz (f)
[Italian] dissonanza (f)

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Last Updated: 2016-05-23 01:39:44