Dissonance

Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity.

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In music, dissonance is a property of an interval or chord. See consonance and dissonance.

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In poetry, dissonance is the deliberate avoidance of patterns of repeated vowel sounds (see assonance). In general, words that are difficult to pronounce or contain harsh, rasping consonants are considered dissonant. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.

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Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict.

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Music: Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody....

Interval: The term interval is used in the following contexts:...

Chord: Chord may mean:...