dissonance
(DI-suh-nens)
[Eng.] - [Fr.]
Two or more notes sounded together which are discordant, and, in the prevailing harmonic system, require resolution to a consonance.
Also discord.
See also
[Eng.] dissonance;
[Fr.] dissonance (f);
[Ger.] Dissonanz (f);
[It.] dissonanza (f).
Table of musical translations
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