dissonance
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The overall picture is one of serious cognitive dissonance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Well, that is a conundrum that Mrs. Waters, in the interest of avoiding confrontation with her life’s cognitive dissonance, should probably learn to live with.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The polyphony central to Ives’s music prevented its wide embrace during his lifetime, and even today—when his genius is fully recognized—the dissonance in his scores remains an impediment for many music lovers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In a moment when AI and digital technology allows for on-demand perfection, there’s a creeping thrill to the possibility of flaws and dissonance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
But consonance and dissonance do also have a strong physical basis in nature.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
It gives Beck room to peal some clarion melodies and then attack them with trills, bent notes, blues licks and dissonances.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Q: I love the beauty of the dissonances in the Carl Ruggles piece you’ve selected.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022
Everything about it, from the spare, enveloping details of Grant Major’s production design to the nerve-shredding dissonances of Jonny Greenwood’s score, directs our focus inward.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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