dissonancenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdɪs.ən.əns/us/ˈdɪs.ə.nəns/specialized music a combination of sounds or musical notes that are not pleasant when heard together:
the jarring dissonance of Klein's musical score
formal disagreement
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- accidental
- adagio
- allegro
- antiphonal
- arpeggio
- arr
- arrange
- cadence
- harmonic
- harmony
- key signature
- legato
- mike check
- motif
- timbre
- tremolo
- tuning
- twelve-tone
- twelve-tone scale
- unison
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dissonant
adjective uk/ˈdɪs.ən.ənt/us/ˈdɪs.ə.nənt/specialized or formal
a dissonant combination of sounds